Close protection licence holder statistics from the last 5 years
Published 30 January 2025
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Request
Question 1
How many close protection licence holders are there in total as of December 2024?
Question 2
How many close protection licences were granted in: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to date (please show the total for each year individually)?
Question 3
Since the start of 2024, how many close protection licence holders have not renewed their licence?
Response
Question 1
This information is exempt from disclosure under section 21(1) FOIA 2001, this is because the information is accessible to you by other means, namely it is readily available on our website. You can access it here: SIA licence holders - GOV.UK.
We publish demographic statistics every month on our website.
Question 2
| Year | Number of close protection licences granted |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 4,549 |
| 2020 | 5,200 |
| 2021 | 5,744 |
| 2022 | 4,404 |
| 2023 | 3,303 |
| 2024 | 4,376 |
Question 3
Since the start of 2024, a total of 1,402 close protection licence holders have not renewed their licence.
[Ref: FOI 0538]