Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of standardising the availability of fall-prevention equipment across police forces.

The Home Office does not hold the requested information.

Decisions around procuring this type of equipment is a matter for operationally independent Chief Constables, Police and Crime Commissioners or their Mayoral equivalents, to be taken in line with the needs of their local force.