PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Stop and Search: Greater Manchester (27 March 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many stop-and-searches were carried out in Greater Manchester in 2022; and what proportion of these were carried out on people of Black and Minority Ethnicity.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

The Home Office collects and publishes data on stop and search on an annual basis. The most recent data, for the year ending March 2022, is available here:

Police powers and procedures: Stop and search and arrests, England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

In the year ending March 2022, there were 9,642 stop and searches carried out by Greater Manchester Police. Excluding vehicle searches and searches where the person’s self-defined ethnicity was unknown, 30% of these stop and searches were of people from minority ethnic backgrounds (excluding white minorities).

Data for the year ending March 2023 is due to be published in autumn 2023.

Answered by:
Chris Philp (Conservative)
30 March 2023