Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police officers served in Lincolnshire in (a) February 2014 and (b) February 2024.

The Home Office does not hold information on police officers in post as February 2014 and February 2024.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales, broken down by Police Force Area (PFA), on a bi-annual basis in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.

The data are collected as a snapshot at 31 March and 30 September each year only. Data on the number of police officers in Lincolnshire, as at 31 March each year, from 2007 to 2023, on a full-time equivalent and headcount basis, can be found in the ‘Police Workforce Open Data Table’ here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1172892/open-data-table-police-workforce-260723.ods.

Whilst the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin is the key measure of the size of the police workforce, as part of the Police Uplift Programme, between October 2019 and March 2023, the Home Office published data quarterly on the number of officers (headcount terms only) in England and Wales, broken down by PFA and month. Data can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-officer-uplift-statistics.