Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to launch the next round of the next direct entry scheme for superintendent recruitment.

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.