HC Deb 20 July 2001 vol 372 cc646-7W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women police officers are of Asian heritage in each police force in England. [3843]

Mr. Denham

On 31 March 2000, the most recent date for which figures are available, the number of full-time equivalent Asian female officers in England and Wales was 140. This breaks down between forces as follows:

Force Asian women officers
Avon and Somerset 0
Bedfordshire 5
Cambridgeshire 1
Cheshire 0
City of London 2
Cleveland 0
Cumbria 1
Derbyshire 5
Devon and Cornwall 0
Dorset 0
Durham 1
Dyfed-Powys 1
Essex 3
Gloucestershire 0
Greater Manchester 6
Gwent 0
Hampshire 2
Hertfordshire 2
Humberside 0
Kent 5
Lancashire 2
Leicestershire 8
Lincolnshire 1
Merseyside 0
Metropolitan police 26
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Northumbria 0
North Wales 0
North Yorkshire 0
Nottinghamshire 2
South Wales 0
South Yorkshire 5
Staffordshire 2
Suffolk 2
Surrey 3
Sussex 1
Thames Valley 8
Warwickshire 2
West Mercia 0
West Midlands 34
West Yorkshire 10
Wiltshire 0
Total 140