Public Spaces Protection Orders: Prayer

(asked on 11th January 2023) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 19th January 2023

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.

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