HC Deb 25 June 1998 vol 314 cc593-4W
Mr. Maclean

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of medical

Medical retirements as a percentage of all police retirements, England and Wales 1990–1997–98
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–981
Avon and Somerset 54 59 57 52 71 28 40 54
Bedfordshire 41 58 32 41 43 39 39 50
Cambridgeshire 59 51 35 49 45 48 40 25
Cheshire 59 58 61 46 44 29 38 26
City of London 59 33 38 44 35 40 27 16
Cleveland 79 85 81 62 78 57 58 32
Cumbria 53 48 47 57 63 23 39 44
Derbyshire 75 80 75 79 68 60 58 65
Devon and Cornwall 40 51 42 43 27 22 18 20
Dorset 54 68 48 72 32 33 22 20
Durham 64 62 48 61 66 56 53 35
Dyfed-Powys 52 61 59 50 58 61 48 46
Essex 40 48 33 30 40 27 32 25
Gloucestershire 38 39 43 30 37 21 24 n/a
Greater Manchester 73 68 67 60 69 49 65 61
Gwent 38 58 64 51 67 58 56 47
Hampshire 35 38 38 42 41 23 21 30
Hertfordshire 41 63 33 45 37 58 19 33
Humberside 46 48 43 43 69 33 37 34
Kent 56 52 59 63 65 49 16 20
Lancashire 61 67 64 57 65 49 41 25
Leicestershire 74 75 68 85 75 63 56 42
Lincolnshire 38 59 48 51 71 49 23 48
Merseyside 65 58 62 71 78 76 77 54
Metropolitan Police n/a n/a n/a 48 35 50 51 n/a
Norfolk 37 53 38 31 37 20 23 21
North Wales 59 71 71 71 82 72 55 28
North Yorkshire 75 65 81 74 77 67 76 49
Northamptonshire 93 56 55 39 68 37 58 41
Northumbria 67 70 64 60 81 69 63 n/a
Nottinghamshire 78 63 66 71 78 53 51 43
South Wales 59 64 37 36 42 48 36 49
South Yorkshire 52 60 59 66 55 49 45 31
Staffordshire 59 69 69 70 64 60 55 50
Suffolk 40 43 59 47 34 47 39 39
Surrey 61 57 44 44 60 45 41 14
Sussex 39 46 40 36 37 39 29 18
Thames Valley 51 49 48 35 58 44 44 33
Warwickshire 37 45 30 38 27 48 38 33
West Mercia 51 50 53 40 47 46 48 38
West Midlands 39 39 32 31 58 37 35 29
West Yorkshire 85 73 83 71 70 32 35 n/a
Wiltshire 29 48 23 34 22 13 16 19
Provincial average 59 59 56 54 60 46 43 2—
England and Wales average 2— 2— 2— 53 53 46 45 2—
1 Figures for 1997–98 are provisional
2 Data from some forces not available

Note:

n/a—not available

retirements from each police service in England and Wales as a proportion of all retirements for each of the last 10 years. [47212]

Mr. Michael

Numbers of medical retirements from forces in England and Wales for the years between 1990 and 1996–97, as a proportion of the total number of retirements, are included in the report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary "Lost Time: The Management of Sickness Absence and Medical retirement in the Police Service", published in December 1997. The information is reproduced in the table, which also includes provisional figures for 1997–98. Such information is not available for the period before 1990.