Precept rise for both police and fire service

7:00am Tuesday 26th February 2013 in News Photograph of the Author By Jo Winrow, City Hall Reporter

Council tax payers will have to pay 9.5 per cent and 3.8 per cent more to pay for the fire and rescue service and the police service respectively in West Yorkshire next financial year.

It follows two years of the precepts for both authorities being frozen, having taken advantage of Government grants which were on offer.

This time the fire and rescue service was granted special dispensation to increase its precept by up to £5 per household per year for band D properties in 2013/14. However, this still leaves West Yorkshire as the lowest cost fire and rescue service in the region and one of the lowest in the country.

The hike for the police service was agreed on the guarantee that the additional funding would be used to pay for more frontline police officers on the streets.

It equates to an extra £4.99 a year for band D households for the fire and rescue authority, and an extra 1p per household per day for the majority of households for the police service.

The West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service precept for 2013/14 is: band A - £38.27; band B - £44.64; band C - £51.02; band D - £57.40; band E - £70.16; band F - £82.91; band G - £95.67; band H - £114.80.

The West Yorkshire Police precept for 2013/14 is: band A - £90.33; band B - £105.39; band C - £120.44; band D £135.50; band E - £165.61; band F - £195.72; band G - £225.83; band H - £271.00.

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Mik_e says...
8:40am Tue 26 Feb 13

How much of the precept is used to pay for large cars that are used by senior officers from both the police & fire service ? When much smaller and economical cars could be used instead.

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webess says...
8:50am Tue 26 Feb 13

Mik_e wrote:
How much of the precept is used to pay for large cars that are used by senior officers from both the police & fire service ? When much smaller and economical cars could be used instead.
A few pence you'll find.

It's the pension costs that are the ticking time bomb in the police and fire service budgets.

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Mish29 says...
8:54am Tue 26 Feb 13

webess wrote:
Mik_e wrote:
How much of the precept is used to pay for large cars that are used by senior officers from both the police & fire service ? When much smaller and economical cars could be used instead.
A few pence you'll find.

It's the pension costs that are the ticking time bomb in the police and fire service budgets.
Is that the pensions that both police and the fire service contribute up to 15% of there wage towards every month ?

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Cooperlane2 says...
9:32am Tue 26 Feb 13

...and retire at55 on a full pension. Yes. Yes it is. Longer in retirement than working.

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collos25 says...
9:50am Tue 26 Feb 13

I have never had to use the Fire service so cannot really comment but the police should be giving me money if ever a service was not fit to be in existance its the police service .

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Outraged English Subject says...
9:53am Tue 26 Feb 13

I received a full pension at 40 ;~) and can’t wait for my state pension! What’s your point!

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webess says...
10:22am Tue 26 Feb 13

Mish29 wrote:
webess wrote:
Mik_e wrote:
How much of the precept is used to pay for large cars that are used by senior officers from both the police & fire service ? When much smaller and economical cars could be used instead.
A few pence you'll find.

It's the pension costs that are the ticking time bomb in the police and fire service budgets.
Is that the pensions that both police and the fire service contribute up to 15% of there wage towards every month ?
Indeed it is, and their employers (ie us) pay several times more.

Do you really think it's possible for 15% of your pay for 30 years to pay 66% of your pay for another 30 years plus?

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Prisoner Cell Block A says...
2:41pm Tue 26 Feb 13

Let's cut things to the bone then charge you more for it.

What other enterprise would be ongoing with that logic in place?

Someone would be better off drilling a hole right through this island and scuppering it. Let's face it, it's a sinking stink hole getting filled with detritus from all over Europe and the world.

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Outraged English Subject says...
3:37pm Tue 26 Feb 13

Your words are like a dagger plunged into my esophagus and slowly twisted, indescribably painful and so frustratingly accurate.

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Mish29 says...
6:23pm Tue 26 Feb 13

webess wrote:
Mish29 wrote:
webess wrote:
Mik_e wrote:
How much of the precept is used to pay for large cars that are used by senior officers from both the police & fire service ? When much smaller and economical cars could be used instead.
A few pence you'll find.

It's the pension costs that are the ticking time bomb in the police and fire service budgets.
Is that the pensions that both police and the fire service contribute up to 15% of there wage towards every month ?
Indeed it is, and their employers (ie us) pay several times more.

Do you really think it's possible for 15% of your pay for 30 years to pay 66% of your pay for another 30 years plus?
Webass, you talk b****ks
Please get your facts right before jumping on the band wagon again !!

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