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Police: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will establish a limit on the proportion of foreign national officers that may be employed by each police force.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
19 Nov 2025
Answer
26 Nov 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will establish a limit on the proportion of foreign national officers that may be employed by each police force.

  2. 19 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    Decisions about police recruitment, including how recruitment and selection processes are run, are a matter for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners and are therefore managed locally by forces. This is done within a national application, as...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Refugees: Gaza

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offenders

19 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data the Police National Computer holds on the number of offences committed in the last 12 months, by where the offender was born.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Large Goods Vehicles: Speed Limits

19 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of sharing information between Border Force and Kent Police on HGV drivers that repeatedly break the speed limit.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Churches: Vandalism

24 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to conduct a national review into criminal attacks on churches and Christian heritage sites.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Churches: Vandalism

24 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded offences involving vandalism, arson, burglary, or hate-motivated attacks were committed against Christian places of worship in each of the last five years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Churches: Vandalism

24 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department records crimes committed against churches, chapels and other places of Christian worship as a distinct offence category.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Churches: Vandalism

24 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests and prosecutions have resulted from reported offences against churches in each of the last five years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Churches: Vandalism

24 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds data on the nationality or immigration status of people arrested for offences committed against churches.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants

25 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants are in the total absconder pool for which the latest data is available.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

25 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are in the total absconder pool of foreign national offenders for which the latest data is available.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Home Office: Mental Health

25 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in their Department have been on mental health leave for six months or more; and for what reason.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Prisoners' Release: Foreign Nationals

26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration offenders were released on bail and not detained in each of the last ten years.