POLICE STATION RATES | This is a complete list of police station rates as of Saturday 23rd January 2021. Do note that 8.75% was deducted from the rates on 20th March 2014 and then there was a further deduction totalling 17.50% from 1st July 2015. On 1st April 2016 the last reduction was reversed.
Confused? No need to stress - the tables below are correct today, Saturday 23rd January 2021. The rates are listed without VAT. If you need to work out an Escape Fee head over to our Escape Fee Calculator. | Lowest: | £126.58 | Blackpool | Highest: | £274.66 | Heathrow | Average: | £165.15 | |
| | | | Updated 27th July 2020: added court duty rates and menu. Many thanks to David Anderson of Hines Solicitors for his eagle eyed attention to detail! | |
| REGION 1: Avon & Somerset | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Avon North & Thornbury | £177.94 | £561.49 | Bath | £193.37 | £580.10 | Mendip & South Somerset | £216.67 | £650.02 | Bristol | £159.98 | £479.94 | Taunton Deane | £181.59 | £615.06 | Sedgemore | £181.59 | £615.06 | Weston-Super-Mare | £180.95 | £542.85 |
| REGION 2: Bedfordshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Bedford | £167.90 | £517.22 | Luton | £177.94 | £601.07 |
| REGION 3: Cambridgeshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Cambridge | £162.43 | £500.91 | Ely | £177.94 | £575.45 | Huntingdon | £173.18 | £519.55 | March & Wisbech | £171.63 | £514.90 | Peterborough | £142.90 | £428.69 |
| REGION 4: Cheshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Crewe & Nantwich / Sandbach & Congleton / Macclesfield | £176.11 | £540.52 | Warrington / Halton | £154.54 | £463.62 | Chester / Vale Royal (Northwich) | £160.76 | £482.27 |
| REGION 5: Cleveland | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Hartlepool | £131.40 | £405.40 | Teesside | £135.96 | £417.03 |
| REGION 6: Cumbria | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Barrow in Furness | £153.77 | £461.30 | Kendal & Windermere | £183.28 | £549.83 | Penrith / Carlisle | £173.18 | £519.55 | Whitehaven / Workington | £143.67 | £431.02 |
| REGION 7: Derbyshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | East Derbyshire (Ripley) / Ilkeston | £206.57 | £619.72 | Ashbourne / Matlock / High Peak (Buxton) | £190.27 | £570.80 | Chesterfield | £177.84 | £533.51 | Derby / Swadlincote | £177.94 | £570.80 |
| REGION 8: Devon & Cornwall | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Barnstaple | £173.96 | £521.88 | Exeter | £154.54 | £463.62 | Plymouth | £179.40 | £538.19 | East Cornwall | £198.93 | £675.64 | Carrick / Kerrier (Camborne) / Penwith | £177.94 | £563.82 | Teignbridge / Torbay | £163.17 | £489.25 |
| REGION 9: Dorset | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Central Dorset | £182.50 | £547.50 | Bournemouth & Christchurch | £145.22 | £435.67 | Poole East Dorset | £153.30 | £470.60 | Bridport / West Dorset | £146.00 | £438.00 |
| REGION 10: Durham | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Darlington | £154.54 | £463.62 | South Durham | £152.39 | £468.28 | Durham | £177.94 | £554.48 | Derwentside | £171.63 | £514.90 | Easington | £166.99 | £512.54 |
| REGION 11: Dyfed Powys | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Amman Valley | £177.94 | £570.80 | Carmarthen East Dyfed | £201.92 | £605.75 | Llanelli | £138.70 | £426.34 | Brecon & Radnor | £203.47 | £610.41 | Mid Wales | £155.32 | £465.95 | North Ceredigion / South Ceredigion | £204.24 | £612.73 | Pembrokeshire | £166.99 | £514.90 |
| REGION 12: Essex | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Basildon | £177.94 | £549.83 | Brentwood | £249.11 | £845.72 | Braintree | £198.93 | £673.32 | Clacton & Harwich / Colchester | £177.94 | £563.82 | Grays | £232.69 | £789.80 | Harlow & Loughton | £232.69 | £789.80 | Stansted | £257.33 | £873.67 | Rayleigh / Southend on Sea | £166.97 | £500.91 | Chelmsford / Witham | £176.11 | £542.85 |
| REGION 13: Gloucestershire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Cheltenham | £157.86 | £486.92 | Gloucester | £155.13 | £477.61 | Stroud | £177.94 | £547.50 |
| REGION 14: Greater Manchester | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Manchester | £177.94 | £587.11 | Stockport | £167.74 | £503.23 | Trafford | £177.94 | £559.16 | Salford | £177.94 | £570.80 | Bolton | £164.64 | £493.93 | Bury | £159.98 | £479.94 | Wigan | £170.07 | £510.22 | Rochdale / Middleton | £169.30 | £507.89 | Tameside | £156.04 | £479.94 | Oldham | £137.46 | £412.38 |
| REGION 15: Gwent | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | East Gwent | £169.73 | £521.88 | Newport | £166.99 | £512.54 | Lower Rhymney Valley / North Bedwellty/ South Bedwellty | £177.94 | £556.81 |
| REGION 16: Hampshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Aldershot / Petersfield (North East Hampshire) | £199.84 | £677.97 | Andover / Basingstoke / Winchester (North West Hampshire) | £210.46 | £631.38 | Isle of Wight | £171.63 | £514.90 | Portsmouth / Waterlooville (South East Hampshire) | £176.29 | £528.86 | Gosport & Fareham | £215.11 | £645.34 | Southampton (South West Hampshire) | £198.81 | £596.42 |
| REGION 17: Hertfordshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Dacorum (Hemel Hempstead) | £209.88 | £710.57 | Bishop’s Stortford / East Hertfordshire | £254.59 | £864.34 | Stevenage & North Hertfordshire | £236.34 | £801.46 | St. Albans | £214.44 | £702.25 | Watford | £210.79 | £715.25 |
| REGION 18: Humberside | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Grimsby & Cleethorpes | £134.35 | £403.04 | Scunthorpe | £144.18 | £444.98 | Hull | £153.30 | £470.60 | Beverley / Bridlington | £177.94 | £587.11 | Goole | £182.50 | £617.39 |
| REGION 19: Kent | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Dartford & Gravesend | £232.98 | £698.94 | Ashford & Tenterden / Dover / Folkestone | £205.31 | £696.61 | Medway | £205.02 | £615.06 | Swale | £243.07 | £729.22 | Maidstone & West Malling | £216.67 | £650.02 | Canterbury / Thanet | £177.94 | £603.43 | West Kent (Tonbridge) | £208.13 | £624.40 |
| REGION 20: Lancashire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Burnley / Rossendale | £162.31 | £486.92 | Blackburn / Accrington / Ribble Valley | £177.94 | £580.10 | Blackpool | £126.58 | £379.75 | Fleetwood | £129.69 | £389.08 | Lancaster | £159.20 | £477.61 | Chorley / Ormskirk / South Ribble & Leyland | £174.73 | £524.20 | Preston | £142.90 | £428.69 |
| REGION 21: Leicestershire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Ashby & Coalville / Loughborough / Melton Mowbray | £181.72 | £545.17 | Leicester | £177.94 | £552.15 | Hinckley / Market Harborough | £201.92 | £605.75 |
| REGION 22: Lincolnshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Boston, Bourne, Stamford | £173.38 | £533.51 | Skegness | £156.09 | £468.28 | Lincoln / Gainsborough | £161.53 | £484.59 | Grantham & Sleaford | £159.69 | £491.57 |
| REGION 23: London | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Barking | £224.48 | £761.85 | Bexley | £200.75 | £680.30 | Bishopsgate | £234.51 | £794.45 | Brent | £219.00 | £740.88 | Brentford | £222.65 | £754.84 | Bromley | £211.70 | £717.58 | Camberwell Green | £219.00 | £743.20 | Central London | £237.25 | £803.78 | Clerkenwell / Hampstead | £221.74 | £750.18 | Croydon | £216.26 | £731.54 | Ealing | £229.95 | £780.67 | Enfield | £218.09 | £738.55 | Greenwich / Woolwich | £208.96 | £708.25 | Haringey | £225.39 | £764.17 | Harrow | £219.00 | £743.20 | Havering | £204.40 | £691.96 | Heathrow | £274.66 | £931.93 | Hendon / Barnet | £220.83 | £747.86 | Highbury Corner | £229.95 | £778.16 | Kingston-Upon-Thames | £228.13 | £773.48 | Newham | £219.91 | £745.53 | Old Street | £219.00 | £743.20 | Redbridge | £225.39 | £764.17 | Richmond-Upon-Thames | £240.90 | £815.42 | South London | £229.95 | £778.16 | Sutton | £218.09 | £738.55 | Thames | £218.09 | £738.55 | Tower Bridge | £232.69 | £789.80 | Uxbridge | £210.79 | £715.25 | Waltham Forest | £204.40 | £694.28 | West London | £235.43 | £799.10 | Wimbledon | £223.56 | £757.19 |
| REGION 24: Merseyside | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Bootle & Crosby | £162.43 | £498.58 | Southport | £135.91 | £407.72 | Liverpool | £179.40 | £538.19 | St Helens | £153.30 | £472.96 | Knowsley | £165.16 | £507.89 | Wirral | £157.86 | £484.59 |
| REGION 25: Norfolk | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Cromer & North Walsham | £184.33 | £624.40 | Great Yarmouth | £168.52 | £505.56 | Kings Lynn & West Norfolk | £164.64 | £493.93 | Norwich & District | £169.30 | £507.89 | Diss / Thetford | £175.20 | £538.19 | Dereham | £198.01 | £670.99 |
| REGION 26: North Wales | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Bangor & Caernarfon | £189.49 | £568.47 | Colwyn Bay | £173.38 | £533.51 | Denbighshire | £188.71 | £566.14 | Dolgellau | £188.71 | £566.14 | Mold & Hawarden | £177.94 | £554.48 | North Anglesey | £197.26 | £591.77 | Pwllheli | £133.57 | £400.72 | Wrexham | £161.53 | £484.59 |
| REGION 27: North Yorkshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Northallerton & Richmond | £191.82 | £575.45 | Harrogate & Ripon | £184.05 | £552.15 | Skipton, Settle & Ingleton | £177.94 | £547.50 | Scarborough / Whitby | £152.39 | £468.28 | Malton & Rydale | £146.78 | £440.33 | York / Selby | £159.69 | £491.57 |
| REGION 28: Northamptonshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Corby (Kettering) / Wellingborough | £157.65 | £472.96 | Northampton | £170.85 | £512.54 |
| REGION 29: Northumbria | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | South East Northumberland | £148.33 | £444.98 | Newcastle upon Tyne | £137.79 | £424.01 | Gateshead | £142.90 | £428.69 | North Tyneside | £140.53 | £431.02 | South Tyneside | £133.23 | £410.05 | Sunderland | £148.74 | £458.97 | Houghton Le Spring | £148.74 | £458.97 | Berwick & Alnwick | £177.03 | £545.17 | Tynedale & Hexham | £154.21 | £475.28 |
| REGION 30: Nottinghamshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Mansfield | £160.60 | £493.93 | Newark | £180.17 | £540.52 | Nottingham | £179.40 | £538.19 | Worksop & East Retford | £170.64 | £524.20 |
| REGION 31: South Wales | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Cardiff | £177.94 | £587.11 | Vale of Glamorgan | £208.13 | £624.40 | Cynon Valley | £177.94 | £563.82 | Mid Glamorgan & Miskin | £177.94 | £587.11 | Merthyr Tydfil | £177.94 | £582.46 | Port Talbot | £219.00 | £740.88 | Newcastle & Ogmore | £177.94 | £596.42 | Neath | £180.68 | £612.73 | Swansea | £171.55 | £528.86 |
| REGION 32: South Yorkshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Barnsley | £158.78 | £489.25 | Doncaster | £153.30 | £470.60 | Rotherham | £162.43 | £500.91 | Sheffield | £166.99 | £514.90 |
| REGION 33: Staffordshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Stoke on Trent / Leek | £177.94 | £563.82 | Stafford / Cannock & Rugeley | £177.94 | £547.50 | Lichfield & Tamworth / Burton Upon Trent / Uttoxeter | £172.46 | £531.18 |
| REGION 34: Suffolk | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Lowestoft / Beccles & Halesworth / Aldeburgh | £169.30 | £507.89 | Felixstowe / Ipswich & District / Woodbridge | £172.41 | £517.22 | Sudbury & Hadleigh / Bury St. Edmunds / Haverhill / Newmarket | £177.94 | £552.15 |
| REGION 35: Surrey | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Guildford & Farnham | £179.76 | £610.41 | North West Surrey (Woking) | £196.19 | £666.31 | South East Surrey | £207.14 | £703.59 | Epsom | £209.88 | £712.93 | Staines | £240.90 | £815.42 |
| REGION 36: Sussex | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Brighton & Hove & Lewes | £183.41 | £622.04 | Chichester & District | £162.43 | £498.58 | Crawley / Horsham | £228.32 | £684.95 | Hastings | £142.35 | £438.00 | Worthing | £164.25 | £505.56 | Eastbourne | £173.18 | £519.55 |
| REGION 37: Thames Valley | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Abingdon, Didcot & Witney (South Oxfordshire) | £208.96 | £708.25 | Aylesbury | £198.81 | £596.42 | High Wycombe & Amersham | £190.71 | £647.69 | Milton Keynes | £165.16 | £507.89 | Bicester / North Oxon (Banbury) | £194.36 | £659.33 | Oxford | £194.36 | £659.33 | Reading | £188.71 | £566.14 | Slough (East Berkshire) | £208.96 | £708.25 | West Berkshire (Newbury etc.) | £174.73 | £524.20 |
| REGION 38: Warwickshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Leamington / Nuneaton / Rugby | £178.61 | £535.84 |
| REGION 39: West Mercia | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Hereford / Leominster | £155.32 | £465.95 | Kidderminster / Redditch | £198.81 | £596.42 | Shrewsbury | £166.08 | £510.22 | Telford | £172.46 | £531.18 | Worcester | £180.95 | £542.85 |
| REGION 40: West Midlands | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Sandwell | £176.11 | £540.52 | Wolverhampton & Seisdon | £176.11 | £540.52 | Dudley & Halesowen | £173.18 | £519.55 | Walsall | £177.94 | £549.83 | Birmingham | £177.94 | £566.14 | Solihull | £187.16 | £561.49 | Coventry | £153.77 | £461.30 |
| REGION 41: West Yorkshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Halifax | £173.96 | £521.88 | Huddersfield | £146.78 | £440.33 | Dewsbury | £159.20 | £477.61 | Bradford | £135.96 | £419.36 | Keighley & Bingley | £153.30 | £470.60 | Leeds | £144.18 | £442.65 | Pontefract & Castleford | £141.34 | £424.01 | Wakefield | £139.61 | £428.69 |
| REGION 42: Wiltshire | | VENUE | RATE | ESCAPE FEE | Salisbury | £174.29 | £535.84 | Chippenham / Trowbridge | £187.94 | £563.82 | Swindon | £171.55 | £528.86 |   |
| COURT DUTY RATES | | London | National | | Attendance & Waiting (Office Days): | £50.32 | £49.14 | | Attendance & Waiting (Outside Business Days): | £62.87 | £61.41 | | Travel (Business Days): | £0.00 | £0.00 | | Travel (Outside Business Days or Call Outs): | £24.00 | £24.00 | | | Source: The Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 | |
| SUMMARY | Lowest: | £126.58 | Blackpool | Highest: | £274.66 | Heathrow | Average: | £165.15 | |
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