Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Inquest's report entitled I can’t breathe: Racist, death and British Policing, published on 20 February 2023, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of the finding that Black people are seven times more likely to die than White people in cases where restraint is used by the police.

Government is clear that all police use of force must be reasonable, proportionate and necessary and no-one should experience use of force based on their race or ethnicity.

Where a decision to use force is taken, officers are accountable through the law for their actions.