| Heading: |
Balaclavas: Public Places |
| Question ID: |
1811737 |
| UIN: |
59219 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-11 |
| 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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the outcomes of bans on wearing full face coverings in public spaces in (a) France |
| Is named day: |
false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-24 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4641 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alex Norris
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| Answering Member handle: |
AlexJJNorris
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AlexJJNorris
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| Answer text: |
Britain has a proud tradition of freedom of speech and religious expression within the confines of the law. There are no current general policies or legislations that ban the wearing of religious and non-religious full-face coverings in public spaces. The... |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |