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Palestine Action

Commons · Question 36351 · Tabled 6 Mar 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 13 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Luke Akehurst

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will take steps to help stop (a) Palestine Action’s direct action training days and (b) the spread of violent direct action training materials.

Answer

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 13 Mar 2025

Whilst the right to protest is a fundamental part of our democracy, this right does not extend to activities that promote violence or criminal damage.The decision to investigate potential criminal activity is a matter for the police, who are operationally...