Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police community support officers have been recruited to cover Wolverhampton in each year since 2010.

The Home Office does not hold the information requested.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of police community support officers (PCSOs) who join the police workforce, as standard direct recruits, by police force area level only.

These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin. The latest figures, published in July, are for the year to 31 March 2017.

Data on the number of PCSOs who joined West Midlands police for the years 2006/07 to 2016/17 can be found in the Police workforce: Joiners Open Data Tables, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-open-data-tables