Question follow-through · 46706
Home Office and Police: Resignations
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) workers in her Department submitted their resignation in each of the past five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) workers in her Department submitted their resignation in each of the past five years.
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of police officers leaving the police service, including resignations, in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/gove...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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