Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of days sickness absence for police officers in each force in the last 12 months.

The Home Office does not hold the information requested centrally.

The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of police officers on long term sick absence as at 31^st March each year, by police force area, in the annual ‘Police workforce’ statistical bulletin, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales

The Home Office also collects information on the number of police officers on short/medium term sick absence as at 31^st March each year, by police force area. This information is published by HMIC in their Value for Money profiles, available here: https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmic/our-work/value-for-money-inspections/value-for-money-profiles/