| Heading: |
Criminal Investigation: Reform |
| Question ID: |
1803692 |
| UIN: |
52934 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-16 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5158 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rupert Lowe
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Rupert Lowe
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing reforms to limit the use of police investigations in cases where there is (a) no corroborating evidence and (b) a s |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-23 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1533 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Diana Johnson
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| Answering Member handle: |
DianaJohnsonMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@DianaJohnsonMP
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
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... |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |