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Social Media: Monitoring

Asked by Gregory StaffordConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 16 September 2025UIN 74332

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the (a) number and (b) nature of instances in which members of the public have been subject to monitoring by government agencies on social media platforms in t

Answered by Dan Jarvis

It is the longstanding policy of successive UK Governments that we do not comment on operational intelligence or security matters.

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