Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many special constables have been recruited by each constabulary in each of the last 5 years.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Information on the number of special constable joiners in the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales, covering the situation to 31 March each year, from 2007 onwards can be found in the ‘Joiners Open Data Table’ available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005766/open-data-table-police-workforce-joiners-280721.ods