Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what statistics her Department holds on the (a) ethnic and (b) religious affiliation of police officers in post in England and Wales in the last 12 months.
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the ethnicity of the police officers in England and Wales on an annual basis.
The latest available data are published in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales, 31 March 2019’ statistical bulletin: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2019
Data on the religious affiliation of police officers is not held centrally.