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Criminal Investigation

Commons · Question 52935 · Tabled 16 May 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 23 May 2025

Question

Asked by Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent the misuse of police time and resources through (a) unfounded and (b) politically motivated allegations.

Answer

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 23 May 2025

The Home Office is unable to comment on or intervene in individual police investigations, so as not to undermine Policing’s operational independence. Where a police force investigates an individual, we expect the force to determine how best to support tho...