Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional police officers have been recruited by Merseyside Police since December 2019.

As part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers in England and Wales, broken down by Police Force Area. Data are available here: Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Table U2 of the data tables accompanying this quarterly publication provides a breakdown of these additional officers by month since October 2019. In addition to these data tables, information on the number of police officers (headcount) and new joiners for each month since April 2020 are published in an open data format.

As at 30 June 2022, Merseyside Police have recruited 611 additional police officers attributable to the Police Uplift Programme. This is against an allocation to recruit 665 additional police officers by March 2023.