Question follow-through · 38911
Balaclavas: Public Places
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ban the wearing of balaclavas in public spaces.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ban the wearing of balaclavas in public spaces.
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
Face coverings have a variety of legitimate purposes and as such the Government does not support a general ban on the wearing of balaclavas or other types of face coverings in public.However, the Crime and Policing Bill contains a new criminal offence of ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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