Question follow-through · 29399
Blasphemy
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reintroducing blasphemy laws in England and Wales.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- No published answer in this record
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reintroducing blasphemy laws in England and Wales.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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