Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the organisers of Glastonbury Festival on the inclusion of Kneecap in the 2025 line-up.

The Government’s responsibility is to provide the police with the necessary resources, powers and clarity over priorities to allow them to do what is required to protect public safety.

Subsequent decisions on the investigation and prosecution of criminal offences are a matter for the operationally independent police and Crown Prosecution Service.

Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (TACT) makes it an offence to invite support for a proscribed organisation; recklessly express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation; arrange, manage or assist in arranging or managing a meeting in the knowledge that the meeting is to support or further the activities of a proscribed organisation. Section 13 of TACT also makes it a criminal offence to wear clothing or carry articles in public which arouse reasonable suspicion that an individual is a member or supporter of a proscribed organisation, and publish an image of an item of clothing or other article, such as a flag or logo.