Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers per capita there were in (a) England and Wales, (b) London and (c) the London Borough of Barnet in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

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).

These data are collected at Police Force Area level only, and information at lower levels of geography, such as Parliamentary Constituencies or Metropolitan Boroughs is not collected.

Table H4 of the data tables accompanying each publication, shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) police officers as at 31 March per 100,000 resident population both nationally and at a Police Force Area level.

The latest data, as at 31 March 2023, shows there are 247 police officers per 100,000 resident population in England and Wales, and 408 in the London region.