Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the expenditure of policing and prosecuting public order offences and assaults between trail hunt groups and saboteurs.

The Home Office does not hold figures on the cost of policing and prosecuting public order offences and assaults arising between trail hunt groups and saboteurs.

Policing is operationally independent, and it is for local Chief Constables to determine how best to deploy their officers and resources to meet the needs of their communities.