Written Question·Home Office·UIN 45549
Metropolitan Police: Police Raids
Tabled: 17 April 2025
Answered: 30 April 2025
Question
Tim Farron
Liberal Democrat — Westmorland and Lonsdale
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with the Metropolitan Police on arrests made in a Quaker meeting house in March 2025.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThe police are operationally independent of the government and make decisions on specific incidents based on their intelligence and judgment. The Home Office does not have the power to direct them to make any operational decisions. However, the Home Secre...
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