Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have died in police custody in each of the last five years, by ethnicity.

Every death in custody is a tragedy, and we are committed to delivering meaningful and lasting change to prevent deaths in custody.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct publish figures for deaths in or following police custody each year, including by ethnicity. Data for the last five years are attached.

These figures cover deaths that happen whilst a person is being arrested or taken into detention, including deaths that occur in or on the way to hospital following transfer from the scene of arrest or police custody. They do not include suicides that occur after a person has been released from police custody