Demonstrations: Parliament Square
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of people who were arrested in relation to the protests in Parliament Square on 6 September 2025.
Answered by Sarah Jones
The Government is absolutely clear that support for proscribed organisations is unacceptable. Anyone expressing support for a proscribed organisation should expect to be investigated by the police.
The Metropolitan Police Service has released statistics on the arrests made at the central London protests on 6 September 2025 which can be found here:
Operational decisions, including arrests, are a matter for the police, who are independent of Government.
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