PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Stop and Search (19 July 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been stopped and searched in the last five years; and of those people, how many have been subsequently (a) arrested and (b) convicted.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of stop and searches conducted by each police force in England and Wales and the number of resultant arrests. These data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which can be accessed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales

Table SS_02 of the accompanying data tables shows the number of stop and searches, and resultant arrests for each year from 2001/02.

The Home Office does not collect data on the outcomes of prosecutions following an arrest resulting from a stop and search.

The next release of ‘Police Powers’ statistics is due to be published in October, for the year ending March 2018.

Answered by:
Mr Nick Hurd (Conservative)
27 July 2018