Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of police officers in (a) January 2021 and (b) January 2019.

The Home Office publishes official statistics on the number of police officers In England and Wales as at March and September each year, which are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales

As part of the drive to recruit an additional 20,000 officers by March 2023, the Home Office now also publishes “Police officer uplift” statistics on a quarterly basis, broken down by the number of officers at the end of each month. The number of officers in January 2021 is due to be published in April 2021.