Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many custody suites have been closed since 2010.

This information is not held centrally, but is available from police forces.

Decisions about the most effective use of available resources, including the number of custody suites in a force area, are a matter for the Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Constable locally (the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime and the Commissioner in the case of the Metropolitan Police and the Corporation and the Commissioner in the case of the City of London Police), tailored to the operational needs of the police in their local community.