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Police Minister Mike Penning has drawn up a new funding formula under which forces in leafy Tory areas will scoop huge rises while Labour-run cities will face further devastating cuts.

A leaked internal analysis suggests Lincolnshire will get a 75% rise, Dorset 71% and Hertfordshire – Mr Penning’s home county – 31%.

The Police and Crime Commissioners Treasurers’ Society reckons West Midlands and Merseyside will lose 25% of their funding and Greater Manchester 23%. It comes on top of 25% cuts planned for the next five years that mean urban forces will lose half their funding by 2020.

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Shadow Police Minister Jack Dromey said: “Penning’s proposals to give his own force a 31% rise while slashing funding for forces like Merseyside reeks of characteristic Tory unfairness.”

Some 17,000 officers have been axed since 2010 under PM David Cameron .

In a statement, Mr Penning said the new funding model is being "refined" and that final decision will be made later this year.

"The current model for allocating police funding, is complex, opaque and out of date," he said.

"That is why we have consulted on principles for reform... ensuring it is fair, robust and transparent.

" We are currently considering the responses and are refining the model in light of this feedback.”

"Allocations for individual police forces have not been set and decisions on funding will not be made until the outcome of the Spending Review in November.”