HC Deb 17 November 2003 vol 413 cc683-5W
Mr. Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Community Support Officers there are in Lincolnshire constabulary. [138227]

Ms Blears

There are currently 43 Community Support Officers on patrol within Lincolnshire police force and one vacancy.

The Home Office funds or part funds 42 of these posts. The other two, deployed within caravan sites in East Division's (Skegness), are wholly locally funded.

Mr. Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Community Support Officers(a) there are in 2002–03 and (b) there will be in 2003–04 in each police authority in England and Wales. [138228]

Ms Blears

The table shows the number of Community Support Officers (CSOs) recruited by each force by 1 April 2003 and the Home Office estimate for the number of CSOs in each force on 1 April 2004. The figures given include both Home Office funded CSOs and those CSOs funded by local arrangements who have already been recruited. I anticipate that the total numbers for April 2004 will be larger for some forces as they are working to recruit additional locally funded CSOs.

Force CSOs recruited

1 April 2003

 Estimate CSOs

recruited 1 April 2004
Avon and Somerset 12 46
Bedfordshire 0 12
Cambridgeshire 6 47
Cheshire 6 21
Cleveland 40 60
Devon and Cornwall 20 55
Dorset 7
Durham 10 35
Dyfed-Powys 0 5
Essex 10 55
Gloucestershire 0 60
Greater Manchester 160 185
Gwent 30 50
Hertfordshire 14 38
Kent 18 63
Lancashire 74 111
Leicestershire 28 45
Lincolnshire 32 44
Merseyside 40 100
Metropolitan Police 604 1,034
Norfolk 12 30
Northamptonshire 12 12
North Wales 0 8
North Yorkshire 0 37
Northumbria 0 45
Nottinghamshire 10 45
South Wales 0 50
South Yorkshire 14 42
Staffordshire 0 10
Suffolk 0 15
Surrey 52 63
Sussex 22 72
Thames Valley 0 8
Warwickshire 11 24
West Mercia 10 40
West Midlands 0 56
West Yorkshire 70 170
Wiltshire 15 25
Total 1,339 2,825

Mr. Stevenson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many community support officers are deployed in each local authority area in Staffordshire. [137772]

Ms Blears

In May 2003 my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary allocated funding for 10 Community Support Officers (CSOs) to Staffordshire police force. The table shows the deployment of these CSOs in the local authorities of Staffordshire.

Local authority Number of CSOs
Cannock Chase 0
East Staffordshire 2
Lichfield 2
Newcastle under Lyme 2
South Staffordshire 2
Stafford 0
Staffordshire Moorlands 1
Stoke on Trent 0
Tamworth 1