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Home Office · 6 May 2005 – 11 May 2010

Stop and search arrest rate during the Labour 2005–2010 government

Year ending March 2005 → Year ending March 2010 · 5 periods

↓ 23.8%−2.5% percent

Stop and search arrest rate fell by 23.8% over the period, from 10.4% percent (Year ending March 2005, the level when the government took office) to 7.9% (Year ending March 2010, the last complete period before it left office).

  1. Inherited level Year ending March 2005: 10.4%
  2. Level when it left Year ending March 2010: 7.9%
  3. method: latest complete period before start / before end

Changes during this period do not by themselves show what the government caused. Statistics reflect many influences, including earlier decisions, the economy and how the data is collected.

Stop and search arrest rate: Year ending March 2002 to Year ending March 2025LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0%5%10%15%20052010201520202025Year ending March 2002: 12.9% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2003: 12.1% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2004: 11.8% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2005: 10.4% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2006: 10.2% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2007: 10.8% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2008: 10% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2009: 7.8% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2010: 7.9% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2011: 8.9% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2012: 9.2% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2013: 10.4% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2014: 12% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2015: 13.8% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2016: 15.7% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2017: 17.1% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2018: 17.1% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2019: 15.3% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2020: 12.8% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2021: 11.4% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2022: 12.6% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2023: 13.6% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2024: 14.2% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2025: 14.9% percent · published 6 November 2025
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Definition and caveats

The percentage of stop and searches in England and Wales in the year ending March that resulted in an arrest, as published by the Home Office.

Doesn’t measure: Other outcomes such as community resolutions, penalty notices or cautions, or whether the arrest was linked to the reason for the search.