Written Question·Home Office·UIN 101655

Public Order Act 2023

Tabled: 18 December 2025
Answered: 9 January 2026

Question

Mr Lee Dillon

Liberal DemocratNewbury

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department carried out an impact assessment on the introduction of an affirmative statutory instrument to amend the Public Order Act 2023.

Answer

Sarah Jones
On Thursday 27 November 2025, the Home Office laid an affirmative Statutory Instrument in Parliament to amend Section 7 and Section 8 of the Public Order Act (POA) (2023). This will amend the list of key national infrastructure within Section 7 of the POA...

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