Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to increase the number of (a) police and (b) police community support officers in (a) Kingston upon Hull and (b) Humberside.

We are recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers by March 2023, the biggest recruitment drive in decades. As at 31 March 2022, 13,576 additional officers have been recruited as part of the Police Uplift Programme in England and Wales, 68% of the 20,000 officer target.

At 31 March 2022, Humberside police has recruited 237 additional uplift officers against a combined year 1 and 2 uplift allocation of 193 officers. The force has been allocated 129 additional uplift officers in the final year of Uplift.

The 20,000 figure refers to warranted police officers. Decisions about how police resources are deployed, including police community support officers, are a matter for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners.

Data on the number of PCSOs in each of the territorial police forces in England and Wales are published biannually in the “Police workforce, England and Wales” statistical bulletin, available here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)