Question follow-through · 51020
Blasphemy
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will ensure that blasphemy laws are not reintroduced.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will ensure that blasphemy laws are not reintroduced.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
The government has been clear that there is no blasphemy law in England, and we will not introduce one. Everyone has a fundamental right to freedom of speech. All language adopted by government must be accurate and acknowledge British citizens’ unchanging...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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