Question follow-through · 49879

Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the arrest made at a Quaker meeting house in London in March 2025 on peaceful protest.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 1 May 2025
Target answer date: 6 May 2025
Answer: 9 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

1 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the arrest made at a Quaker meeting house in London in March 2025 on peaceful protest.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 May 2025
Answer published
The Metropolitan Police are operationally independent of the government. It is for the police to make decisions about how to respond to specific incidents based on their professional judgement and the circumstances at hand.

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