Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her Department calculates the number of police officers required per 100,000 of the population in (a) Suffolk, (b) Kent, (c) Norfolk and (d) England.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.

Table 11 of the data tables accompanying the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales: 30 September 2024’ release includes data on the number of police officers per 100,000 resident population, both nationally and at a police force area level.

Data on the number of police officers per 100,000 resident population is provided for comparative purposes and is not used as a measure of a required rate.