PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Stop and Search: Greater Manchester (17 April 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March to Question 174473 on Stop and Search: Greater Manchester, what proportion of people stopped and searched by Greater Manchester Police were persons whose self-defined ethnicity was unknown in the year to March 2022.

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)

Excluding vehicle-only searches (249), Greater Manchester Police stopped and searched 9,393 people in the year ending March 2022, of which the individual’s self-defined ethnicity was ‘not stated’ in 1,703 cases (18%).

Answered by:
Chris Philp (Conservative)
25 April 2023