Question follow-through · 63926

Glastonbury Festival: Musicians

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the (a) Irish band Kneecap and (b) Bob Vylan performances at Glastonbury.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
2 Jul 2025
Answer
8 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the (a) Irish band Kneecap and (b) Bob Vylan performances at Glastonbury.

  2. 2 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    Avon and Somerset Police have opened an independent criminal investigation into the matters raised, and it would therefore be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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