Question follow-through · 19268
Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to help ensure that the recording of the ethnicity of individuals who are strip searched is based on their self-identification.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 1 Sept 2026 · 48 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to help ensure that the recording of the ethnicity of individuals who are strip searched is based on their self-identification.
1 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises that strip search is one of the most intrusive powers available to the police and that its use must be lawful, necessary, proportionate and subject to robust safeguards, particularly where children and vulnerable people are invol...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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