Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for defacing (a) monuments and (b) statues in the last 12 months.

The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on arrests in England and Wales as part of the ‘Police Powers and Procedures’ statistical series.

The most recent data for the year ending March 2024 is available here: Stop and search, arrests and mental health detentions, March 2024 - GOV.UK

However, this data is collected by broader offence group only, e.g. “criminal damage”, and detailed information on specific offences is not available.