§ Mr. PaiceTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Special Branch officers were employed in each of the last five years, broken down by police force area. [177174]
§ Ms BlearsPublished information on police strength by Police Force area is available for rank, gender and ethnicity but not function.
Figures on police strength are published in Home Office statistical bulletins, copies of which can be found in the Library or on the internet site www.homeoffice.gov.uk.
The latest published data on settlement in the United Kingdom are published in the Command Paper "Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2002" (Cm6053), available from the Library and from the Home Office website http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/hobpubs1.html The 2003 edition is due to be published later this year.