Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were stopped and searched by the Police in each of the last five years; and how many of those people were subsequently arrested.

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of stop and searches and subsequent arrests, conducted by each police force in England and Wales. The Home Office collects these data at Police Force Area level only and does not hold this information at constituency level.

These data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins, and latest available data for the year ending March 2017 can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2017

Data on stop and searches are broken down by the reason for the search or subsequent arrest and the ethnicity of the person being searched. Data from 2006/07 onwards can be found in the Open Data Table accompanying the Police Powers and Procedures bulletin:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654473/stop-search-open-data-tables-ppp.ods