Asked by: Angus MacDonald (Liberal Democrat - Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, what assessment her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of prosecutions arising from protest activity by Palestine Action.
Answered by Ellie Reeves - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
Prosecutions relating to Palestine Action arrests are currently ongoing and at different stages of progression.
As such, no Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) costs assessments have been made at this stage, but the CPS continues to keep resourcing under review.