To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish data on the number of strip-searches carried out on children by police forces in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
Answered on
27 April 2022
The Home Office have recently introduced a data collection on strip searches to the Annual Data Requirement. Police forces will be providing this data for 2021/22 on a voluntary basis, and it is due for publication towards the end of 2022. The data collection will include details on the age of persons strip searched by the police in England and Wales.
However, prior to April 2021 we do not hold data on strip searches
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