Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions a person has been stopped and searched under Section 47A of the Terrorism Act 2000 in (a) Romford, (b) Havering.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on stop and searches carried out under Section 47A of the Terrorism Act 2000. Data are published at Police Force Area level only.

Data are available on a quarterly basis in the ‘Operations of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation’ statistical release, the latest of which covers the period to June 2022. However, the statistics show there have been no stop and searches in England and Wales under this power since 2018.

Data on searches carried out under this power are also published alongside other stop and search statistics in the annual ‘Police powers and procedures’ statistical bulletin. The accompany open data tables provide a time series for use of this power by Police Force Area.