Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Police Support Volunteers there were working for police forces in England and Wales in each year from 2014 to 2018.

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police support volunteers working for each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins.

The latest published figures, representing the picture as at 30 September 2018, can be accessed in ‘Table 7’ of the accompanying data tables here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2018

Data on the number of police support volunteers in England and Wales as at 31 March 2019 are due to be published on 18 July 2019.

The Home Office has only collected data on police support volunteers since March 2018. Data for previous years are not held.