Question follow-through · 31130

Public Order Act 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of (a) arrests and (b) cost of enforcement of the Public Order Act 2023 since its implementation.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
26 Feb 2025
Answer
26 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of (a) arrests and (b) cost of enforcement of the Public Order Act 2023 since its implementation.

  2. 26 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office does not hold the requested data, but the department has published statistics on arrests for public order offences in the year ending March 2024, the first statistical series since the Public Order Act 2023 was implemented:Stop and search,...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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