Question follow-through · 85436
Police Stations: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police front counters were closed between 2010 and 2024.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police front counters were closed between 2010 and 2024.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Home Office does not collect data on the number of police front counters in use across all police forces, nor on closures.Decisions regarding the management of the police estate, including public access counters at police stations, is a matter for Chi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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