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Police: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional police officers have been recruited since July 2024.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
14 May 2026
Target answer date
18 May 2026
Answer
21 May 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional police officers have been recruited since July 2024.

  2. 18 May 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 May 2026

    Answer published

    The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of police officers, as at 31 March and 30 September each year in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collection...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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