Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent traffic officers were employed by Highways England in each region of England in each year since 2010.
The table below provides an annual regional breakdown of Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Traffic Officers as of 31 March each year. Records pre- dating the creation of Highways England in 2015 are not held.
Region On Road Traffic Officers | 2016 FTE | 2017 FTE | 2018 FTE | 2019 FTE | 2020 FTE |
Yorkshire & North East | 88 | 87 | 96 | 111 | 108 |
North West | 159 | 162 | 182 | 205 | 196 |
East Midlands | 60 | 69 | 78 | 78 | 86 |
West Midlands | 107 | 104 | 121 | 126 | 119 |
South West | 90 | 86 | 85 | 96 | 92 |
South East | 183 | 174 | 171 | 163 | 162 |
East | 179 | 167 | 150 | 180 | 166 |
Total FTEs | 864 | 850 | 884 | 958 | 929 |
(Total FTE numbers may differ slightly to the sum of the regional sections due to rounding of partial FTEs)