Asked by: James Grundy (Conservative - Leigh)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the 20,000 police officers recruited as part of the national campaign will be recruited to Greater Manchester Police.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Government is committed to increasing the number of police officers by 20,000 by March 2023.
As at 31 December 2020, 6,620 additional officers had been recruited in England and Wales as a result of the Police Uplift Programme with Greater Manchester Police having recruited an additional 266 additional officers against the force’s year one allocation of 347.
For year 2 of the Programme, Greater Manchester has an uplift allocation of 325 police officers to be recruited by March 2022.
Asked by: James Grundy (Conservative - Leigh)
Question to the Home Office:
What steps her Department is taking to remove foreign national offenders from the UK during the covid-19 pandemic.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Foreign national offenders who abuse our hospitality should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.
We continue to remove where there are available routes and by charter flight operations.