Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) public confidence in the police force, and (2) the impact of public confidence in the police force on the proportion of crimes people report.

The latest available data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Crime Survey for England and Wales in the year ending March 2020 suggested that 74% of adults had confidence in their local police. Covid-19 has impacted the ONS’s ability to collect more recent data. Currently there is no national (England and Wales) data collected on confidence to report crime.

The Home Office will continue to work with bodies such as the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) to consider how best to support forces in collating data on confidence and making this publicly available.