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Written Question
Abortion: Demonstrations
Monday 12th August 2024

Asked by: Baroness O'Loan (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that police receive adequate training in ECHR rights with regard to policing safe access zones around abortion clinics.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

Under section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998, the police have an obligation to comply with the ECHR in all aspects of their work. Officer training is a matter for individual forces, which are independent of the Government.