Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of conducting stop and search to (a) the Metropolitan Police Service and (b) police forces nationally, in each of the last three years.
The Home Office does not hold this information. The efficiency and cost of stop and search encounters to individual forces will depend on a number of factors, and the police have our full support in the fair and intelligence-led use of this important tool to combat violence.