Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the 20,000 police officers recruited as part of the national campaign will be recruited to Greater Manchester Police.

The Government is committed to increasing the number of police officers by 20,000 by March 2023.

As at 31 December 2020, 6,620 additional officers had been recruited in England and Wales as a result of the Police Uplift Programme with Greater Manchester Police having recruited an additional 266 additional officers against the force’s year one allocation of 347.

For year 2 of the Programme, Greater Manchester has an uplift allocation of 325 police officers to be recruited by March 2022.