Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many days of police time were lost in sick leave as a result of assaults on police officers in each constabulary in each year since 2010.

The Home Office does not hold all of the data requested. Data that are held are provided in the accompanying tables. These statistics have been supplied to the Home Office from police forces’ live operational systems. As such, the numbers may change as information on those systems is updated.

Published data for 2014/15 and 2015/16, along with notes can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales

None of the current data sources provide a complete measure of assaults, and the Home Office is currently working with police forces to improve this data.

Information on the number of working days lost by police officers as a result of sickness due to assault ceased to be collected from 2012/13 due to significant issues with the completeness and quality of the data.

The number of working days lost by police community support officers as a result of sickness due to assaults is not held centrally by the Home Office.