Question follow-through · 33131
Ali Kololo
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will formally apologise to Ali Kololo about the Metropolitan Police’s involvement in his overturned conviction.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will formally apologise to Ali Kololo about the Metropolitan Police’s involvement in his overturned conviction.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Metropolitan Police are operationally independent.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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