Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many police officers have been recruited in England and Wales since 1 January; and of those, how many are (1) female, and (2) BAME.

As part of the Government’s commitment to recruit an additional 20,000 officers by March 2023, the Home Office publishes data on the number of new recruits in the quarterly “Police officer uplift, England and Wales” statistical bulletin. The latest release covers the period to June 2020.

This publication contains information on the number of new recruits, by month, since November 2019: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-officer-uplift-quarterly-update-to-june-2020

Between January and June 2020, 7,549 officers have been recruited into the 43 police forces in England and Wales.

Data on the ethnicity and gender of new recruits are not currently published as part of this quarterly release. However, we continuously review the range of metrics within the release and will endeavour to include this information in future statistical releases.

The next release of this bulletin is scheduled to be published on Thursday 29 October.