Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many assaults on police officers there were by ethnicity of police officer in each of the last three years; and what the ethnicity was of each of the perpetrators.
The Home Office collects data on the number of assaults on police officers and these are published quarterly by the Office for National Statistics. The latest figures, for the year ending December 2019, can be accessed on the ONS website (available here):
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables
However, it not possible to identify the ethnicity all victims and perpetrators involved in assaults of police officers in data held centrally.