Question follow-through · 48814

Local Government: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides to people seeking to complain about private security companies hired by local authorities.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
30 Apr 2025
Answer
1 May 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides to people seeking to complain about private security companies hired by local authorities.

  2. 30 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Security Industry Authority (SIA) is a Home Office arm’s length body established by the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (PSIA) as the regulator of the private security industry.The SIA publishes guidance for buyers of private security which is avai...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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