Cost of fuel (petrol and diesel) for police vehicles from October 2021 – September 2022

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.026648

I note you seek access to the following information:

I am writing to request the cost of fuel (petrol and diesel) for police vehicles within your force.

Please could you provide the following information:

The most recent 1 year of data, broken down into monthly figures:
1) Cost of fuel

2) Please could you also provide your force's budget, or failing that, your projection for the current financial year.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

For the period 01/10/2021 to 29/09/2022 (the figures up to 30/09/2022 are not yet available), the total spend on fuel was £11,833,465.49. This was broken down as follows:

October 2021	£887,793.48
November 2021	£986,091.79
December 2021	£823,609.61
January 2022	£942,012.33
February 2022	£1,085,624.58
March 2022	£1,111,127.29
April 2022	£932,097.56
May 2022	£1,026,258.56
June 2022	£1,137,567.64
July 2022	£1,095,446.08
August 2022	£956,469.77
September 2022	£849,366.80

The annual budget was £11,318,174.