Written Question·Home Office·UIN 75922

Demonstrations: Palestine Action

Tabled: 8 September 2025

Answered: 16 September 2025

Question

Mr Angus MacDonald

Liberal Democrat — Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with police forces on the potential impact of policing protest activity by Palestine Action on the allocation of police resources.

Answer

Sarah Jones

Decisions on how to police individual protests, including those by Palestine Action, are for Chief Constables, who are operationally independent and best placed to assess local threat and risk.Where the activity of protestors breaks the law, the police ha...

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