Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people applied for the superintendent direct entry scheme in each of the last three years.

The College of Policing, which is responsible for delivery of the direct entry schemes, has provided the number of applications to the superintendent direct entry scheme for each of the last three years in the table below. The next recruitment round for direct entry superintendents and inspectors will open in January 2018.