Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers at (a) Lancashire, (b) Greater Manchester, (c) Cumbria, (d) Merseyside and (e) Cheshire Constabulary identify as either (i) male, (ii) female, (iii) gay, (iv) lesbian, (v) bisexual, (vi) transgender, (vii) gender fluid, (viii) bi-gender, (ix) non-binary, (x) gender queer, (xi) gender non-conforming, (xii) tri-gender, (xiii) all genders, (xiv) intersex or (xv) another gender identity.

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins, which are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales

Data on the number of male and female officers, by police force area, as at 31 March 2016, can be found in Table_H1 of the accompanying data tables here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2016