Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2018 to Question 127241, what information her Department holds on the number of fully trained wildlife crime officers in each year since 2010.

The Home Office does not hold centrally any information on the number of trained wildlife crime officers.

It is for elected Police and Crime Commissioners and Chief Constables to decide how their force’s resources are deployed.