§ Mr. BeithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 24 April 1998,Official Report, column 703, when he expects to publish figures for the number of police officers in England and Wales on 31 March. [41011]
§ Mr. MichaelThis information is currently being collected in accordance with routine procedures. Once all the returns have been received from the police and validated, the statistics will be placed in the Library. I expect this information to be available in early June. The figures for the year to March 1997 were published on 10 June 1997.