Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the probability that the Government will recruit a net increase of 20,000 police officers by the end of March 2023, as set out in her Department's Police Uplift Programme.

We are recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers in England and Wales by March 2023, the biggest recruitment drive in decades.

As part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers in England and Wales, available here: Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The latest release, published on 27 July 2022 for data up to June 2022, showed that we remain on track to deliver 20,000 additional officers. As at 30 June 2022, 13,790 additional officers have been recruited from funding for the Police Uplift Programme representing 69% of the target.