Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the net change has been in the number of police officers in (a) the North East and (b) England in each year since 2010.

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins.

The latest data available on the number of police officers, by police force area and region, as at 30 September 2017, can be found in the Table 1 of the police workforce statistics published in January 2018:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/675788/police-workforce-tables-jan17.ods

Data on the number of police officers, as at 31 March each year back to March 2007, can be found in the accompanying Open Data Table: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629362/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods