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<p><br /><del class="ministerial">The Home Office collects and publishes statistics
on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales
on a bi-annual basis. These figures present a picture of the workforce as at the 31
March and as at 30 September each year. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce,
England and Wales’ statistical publication, which can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a></del></p><p><del
class="ministerial">Data on the number of officers per 100,000 of the resident population,
by police force area, are published on an annual basis. The latest available data
on the number of police officers per 100,000 of the population can be found in Table_H4
of the data tables accompanying the main release, the latest of which can be accessed
here:</del><br /><del class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2018"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2018</a></del></p><p><del
class="ministerial">Data on the number of police officers are collected at Police
Force Area level only, and cannot be broken at local authority level.</del></p><p><del
class="ministerial">The Home Office does not hold information on response times of
the police.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In his Budget, the Chancellor committed
to providing funding for the police in 2019/20 to cover additional pensions costs
beyond the £165m which was expected at Budget 2016. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The
pensions grant announced at the settlement covers the additional pension costs above
£165m for the police officer scheme, and the additional pension costs above £11m for
police staff. This reflects revised costings following technical changes to how the
actuarial estimate of the increase in costs for officers is assessed. Total expected
cost pressures arising from the valuations are now £302m for the police officer scheme
and £27m for police staff.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government is
enabling an overall increase in funding of up to £970m in police funding including
precept and national priorities. This pensions funding, taken together with the additional
grant funding and local precept, provides sufficient means for the police to meet
cost increases, while continuing to recruit and invest in the capabilities they need.</ins></p><p><br
/><ins class="ministerial">Cost pressures, including pensions, beyond 2019/20 will
be considered as part of the next Spending Review where decisions on longer term police
funding will be made in the round.</ins></p>
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