To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 14 January 2008, Official Report, columns 1064-65W, on police, what estimate she has made of the number of civilian police posts (excluding police community support officers) in (a) Northamptonshire and (b) England in (i) September 2004 and (ii) March 2007. (180069)

The requested data on police staff are published as part of the Home Office Statistical Bulletin (HOSB) series "Police Service Strength, England and Wales". These bulletins are in the Library of the House and can be downloaded from the Home Office website.

(i) Information requested for September 2004 can be found in Table 2 of HOSB 23/05 located at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/rdsolr2305.pdf

(ii) Information requested for March 2007 can be found in Table 10a of HOSB 13/07 located at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb1307.pdf