Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers, (b) Police Community Support Officers, (c) special constables and (d) staff Cambridgeshire Constabulary were budgeted to recruit in each of the last five financial years.

The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of police officers joining the police service in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.

Information on the number of police officers joining Cambridgeshire Constabulary between the years ending 31 March 2007 to 2024 can be found in the ‘Joiners Open Data Table’ here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/678fab54c88969ba1bc2ad6d/open-data-table-police-workforce-joiners-220125.ods.

Information for the period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 is due to be published in Summer 2025.

The Home Office does not currently collect information on the number of police officers, Police Community Support Officers, special constables or police staff a police force was budgeted to recruit.