Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the use of Public Spaces Protection Orders to prohibit (a) silent and (b) other forms of prayer.
The Home Office does not collect any data on breaches of Public Space Protection Orders.
Public Space Protection Orders are designed to stop individuals or groups committing anti-social behaviour in a public space. Decisions regarding what restrictions are imposed are matters for the local authority which is required to consider people’s rights under the European Convention.