HC Deb 20 November 1984 vol 68 c105W
61. Mr. Favell

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation to provide for unions encouraging mass picketing to bear the cost of policing it.

Mr. Giles Shaw

The question whether the organisers of demonstrations, of which picketing is one form, should contribute towards the cost of policing those demonstrations is being considered in the review of the Public Order Act 1936 and related legislation which my right hon. and learned Friend is conducting.