Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers were employed by Northumbria Police in (a) March 2010 and (b) March 2017.

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales