Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent incidents similar to the public disorder that occurred in Leicester on 20 September 2022.

The police have comprehensive powers to deal with activities that spread hate or deliberately raise tensions through violence or public disorder. The use of these powers is an operational matter for the police.

Police forces have routinely demonstrated that that they can appropriately mobilise in response to a variety of public order policing operations.

The Home Secretary visited Leicester to better understand the causes of the disorder and what can be learned to prevent similar incidents in the future.