Question follow-through · 42685
Security Guards: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the private security licencing regime.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 31 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
31 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the private security licencing regime.
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has been brought under the Security Minister’s portfolio in a move that will ensure that the SIA is provided clear, strategic direction from the Home Office on both regulation of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises)...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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