Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have died as a direct result of police restraint or use of force, by ethnicity, in each of the last 10 years.

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 (IOPC) publish figures for deaths during or following police contact each year. The data includes ethnicity but does not state whether restraint caused the death. This report presents figures on deaths during or following police contact that happened within a financial year.

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. It provides a definitive set of figures for England and Wales, and an overview of the nature and circumstances in which these deaths occurred.

Figures on annual deaths during or following police contact statistics are published on the IOPC website