Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total number of police officers in England (1) in 2010, (2) in 2015, and (3) in the latest year for which figures are available.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size and composition of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin. We have attached the information due to the size of the data which would exceed the word limit for responses to written parliamentary questions

The latest available data in this statistical series, broken down by Police Force Area, cover the situation as at 31 March 2020, and can be found here : https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2020

Table H4 of the accompanying data tables provide information on the number of police officers per 100,000 population by Police Force Area. Open Data tables, which contain the number of officers in each Police Force Area since 2007, are also available: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-open-data-tables

While the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office also publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers (headcount) in England and Wales. Data are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-officer-uplift-statistics

We have attached the information due to the size of the data which would exceed the word limit for responses to written parliamentary questions