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Unmanned Air Systems: Anti-social Behaviour

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to increase police powers to help tackle anti-social behaviour linked to drone use.

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 16 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 18 Jun 2025
Answer: 23 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to increase police powers to help tackle anti-social behaviour linked to drone use.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2025
Answer published
There are a range of existing powers to tackle anti-social drone behaviour, this includes the police powers under the Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021 to require a person to land a drone and to carry out stop and search for certain dr...

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