Submitted on Thursday 28th April 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
The Joint Committee on Human Rights to investigate police protest powers in 2023
The new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act has committed the Home Secretary to “prepare and publish a report” within two years on the way new powers for policing protests are used. We call instead on the Joint Committee on Human Rights to hold its own investigation and hearings in spring 2023
New legislation on protests passed its final hurdle in April 2022 with a last-minute concession that the Home Secretary will report to Parliament on the way new police powers are used to limit freedom of assembly. However, we have little faith a minister’s report is ever sufficiently independent. Instead, one year on, we want the Joint Committee on Human Rights to seek evidence and testimony from campaigners and movements most affected by the new Act, on the impact new police powers have had.
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We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament aren't directly responsible for the issue you raise. It's a matter for individual Committees what inquiries they undertake.
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