Ministry of Defence: Demonstrations
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions police have been required to be present at the picketing of defence factories in the last twelve months; and what the cost was to the public purse.
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson
The management of demonstrations is an operational matter for the police and this data is not held centrally.
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