Question follow-through · 18637
Arrests: Personal Property
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who is responsible for ensuring items of property confiscated after an arrest are returned to the original owner once an investigation is complete.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who is responsible for ensuring items of property confiscated after an arrest are returned to the original owner once an investigation is complete.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2024
Answer published
Under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, and associated Codes of Practice, property seized as evidence may only be retained for so long as is necessary and that the officer in charge of the investigation is responsible for ensuring that the property is...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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