Question follow-through · 43460
Metropolitan Police: Location
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people employed by the Metropolitan police in (a) counter terrorism and (b) other national responsibility areas are based outside London.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people employed by the Metropolitan police in (a) counter terrorism and (b) other national responsibility areas are based outside London.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Home Office does not hold the requested information. Details of the numbers of Metropolitan Police Services employees in different locations are a matter for the service itself.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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