Written Question·Home Office·UIN 36767

Stop and Search: Ethnic Groups

Tabled: 10 March 2025
Answered: 18 March 2025

Question

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Labour — Clapham and Brixton Hill

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle racial disparities in drug-related stop and search rates.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
Disparity in the use of stop and search has reduced significantly in the past five years, but there is still far more work to do. In the year to March 2024, black people were 3.5 times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched on suspicion ...
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