Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 February 1991.
Sir Peter Lloyd
, Fareham
12:00,
7 February 1991
The strength of the Metropolitan police on 30 April 1979 was 22,225. The planned average strength of the Metropolitan police in 1991–92 is 28,465, giving the force over 6,000 more officers than when the Government took office.
