Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been detained in police custody for more than 24 hours on mental health grounds in each year since 2010.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of persons detained for more than 24 hours under Part IV of PACE. Data can be found in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures’ statistical bulletin in accompanying table D_03, the latest of which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/561975/other-pace-police-powers-procedures-hosb1516-tables.ods

Data, broken down by those detained over 24 hours and up to 36 hours, those detained for more than 36 hours, and those detained for longer than 36 hours under a warrant for further detention can be found in Table D_01 of the same release. For detentions exceeding 36 hours, the time in custody under warrant issued by a magistrate can be found in Table D_02.

Data for earlier years can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales

The Home Office does not collect centrally information on the number of persons detained for less than 24 hours, therefore it is not possible to provide a total figure for the number of people detained in police custody each year.

Information on how many people have been detained in police custody for more than 24 hours on mental health grounds is not held centrally.