Written Question·Home Office·UIN 45549

Metropolitan Police: Police Raids

Tabled: 17 April 2025
Answered: 30 April 2025

Question

Tim Farron

Liberal DemocratWestmorland 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 Johnson
The 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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