National statistics

Pre-release access list to: Police workforce, England and Wales: 31 March 2023

Updated 28 March 2024

Applies to England and Wales

Colleagues given access to finalised publication, embargoed, for information (24 hours in advance of publication).

In addition to the Chief Statistician and staff in the Police and Fire Analysis Unit responsible for the production and quality assurance of these statistics, relevant Special Advisers and Private Office staff of Ministers and senior officials may have access to pre-release figures to inform briefing and handling arrangements.

Furthermore, Colleagues in the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), and policy officials from the Police Uplift Programme (also listed below), have advanced access to provisional management information, from the NPCC, on the Police Officer Uplift. While this management information feeds into the final ‘Police officer uplift’ statistics, they are labelled as provisional until the data have been thoroughly quality assured by Home Office statisticians and released. Statistics in their final form are not shared outside of the production team until the 24-hour pre-release period.

Home Office

  • Home Secretary
  • Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire
  • Lords Minister
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Second Permanent Secretary
  • Special Advisers (2)
  • Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Director General, Public Safety Group
  • Director, Home Office Analysis and Insight Directorate
  • Director, Policing
  • Head of Unit, Police Uplift Programme (PUP)
  • Head of Unit, Police Workforce and Professionalism Unit (PWPU)
  • Head of News, Communication Directorate
  • Policy Advisers (4), PUP
  • Policy Adviser, PWPU
  • Policy Adviser, Police Funding Policy
  • Press Officers & Social Media (7), Press Office

No. 10

  • Prime Minister
  • Private Secretary to Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs
  • Private Secretary to Prime Minister on Home Affairs
  • Prime Minister’s Briefing Officer, No.10 Research and Information Unit
  • Special Advisers (3)
  • Policy Advisers (4), No.10 Delivery Unit
  • Press Officers (3)

National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC)

  • Chair of the NPCC
  • Police Uplift Programme (3)
  • Press Officers (2)

College of Policing

  • Chief Executive of the College of Policing
  • Chair of the College of Policing
  • Press Officers (2)