Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with police forces on the potential impact of policing Palestine Action protests on their capacity to deliver core policing services.

Decisions on how to police individual protests, including those by Palestine Action, are for Chief Constables, who are operationally independent and best placed to assess local threat and risk. Where the activity of protestors breaks the law, the police have the powers they need to respond.

It would not be appropriate for Ministers to intervene in those operational decisions, but we continue to work closely with policing to ensure they have the right capabilities and support in place to keep the public safe and uphold the law.