Question follow-through · 20027
Police Custody and Stop and Search: Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing data on whether illicit objects were found during strip searches (a) in police custody and (b) during police stop and searches by (
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing data on whether illicit objects were found during strip searches (a) in police custody and (b) during police stop and searches by (
17 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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23 Dec 2024
Answer published
Strip search is one of the most intrusive powers available to the police. Its use must be fair, respectful, without unlawful discrimination, and transparent. The Government is committed to introducing new legal safeguards around strip searching children.A...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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