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Metropolitan Police: Police Raids

Asked by Martin WrigleyLiberal DemocratHome OfficeTabled Answered 11 September 2025UIN 75109

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral contribution to the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam on 31 March 2025, Vol. 765, column 25, page 23, if she will update the House on developments in relation to arrests made at the Quaker meeting house in Westminster.

Answered by Sarah Jones

Decisions relating to police operations, including arrests, are made independently by the police.

Ministers do not intervene in individual cases or operational matters, not because of any lack of concern, but to respect and uphold the principle of policing free from political influence.

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