Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police community support officers there were in (a) Cleveland and (b) the UK on 1 May of each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Information on the number of police officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) in England and Wales broken by Police Force Area (PFA) as at the 31st March each year since 2007 can be found in the ‘Police Workforce Open Data Table’ available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-open-data-tables.
While the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office also publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers (headcount terms only) in England and Wales, broken down by PFA. Data are available here: Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
The Home Office does not hold information on the number of police vacancies in England and Wales.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officer vacancies there were in (a) Cleveland and (b) the UK on 1 May of each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Information on the number of police officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) in England and Wales broken by Police Force Area (PFA) as at the 31st March each year since 2007 can be found in the ‘Police Workforce Open Data Table’ available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-open-data-tables.
While the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office also publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers (headcount terms only) in England and Wales, broken down by PFA. Data are available here: Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
The Home Office does not hold information on the number of police vacancies in England and Wales.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers there were in (a) Cleveland and (b) the UK on 1 May of each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Information on the number of police officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) in England and Wales broken by Police Force Area (PFA) as at the 31st March each year since 2007 can be found in the ‘Police Workforce Open Data Table’ available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-open-data-tables.
While the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office also publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers (headcount terms only) in England and Wales, broken down by PFA. Data are available here: Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
The Home Office does not hold information on the number of police vacancies in England and Wales.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2022 to Question 33778 on Public Sector: Crimes of Violence, when she plans to publish an economic impact assessment of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The economic impact assessment for the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 will be published in due course.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to include entry-level permanent roles in the (a) agricultural and (b) horticultural sectors in the points-based immigration system.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
A range of agricultural and horticultural occupations are already eligible for the Skilled Worker route including farmers, growers, market gardeners and poultry processors. However, the Government has no plans to introduce a general immigration route allowing recruitment at or near the minimum wage with relatively short or no work-based training requirements.
Investment and development of the UK’s domestic labour force should take priority, rather than seeing cheaper migrant labour as the solution to recruitment difficulties. Those businesses facing recruitment issues should therefore engage with the Department for Work and Pensions in the first instance about the support they can provide.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to introduce visas for people seeking permanent entry-level roles in the (a) agricultural and (b) horticultural sectors.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
A range of agricultural and horticultural occupations are already eligible for the Skilled Worker route including farmers, growers, market gardeners and poultry processors. However, the Government has no plans to introduce a general immigration route allowing recruitment at or near the minimum wage with relatively short or no work-based training requirements.
Investment and development of the UK’s domestic labour force should take priority, rather than seeing cheaper migrant labour as the solution to recruitment difficulties. Those businesses facing recruitment issues should therefore engage with the Department for Work and Pensions in the first instance about the support they can provide.