Monuments: Protection

(asked on 30th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Department is taking to protect monuments of historical, artistic and local heritage importance from political protests.


Answered by
Nigel Huddleston Portrait
Nigel Huddleston
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 15th January 2021

Responsibility for the policing of political protests - including those focused on public statues and memorials - rests with the Home Office however, through its responsibility for the listing system, DCMS identifies those statues and memorials deemed to be of special architectural or historic interest, something that can inform the targeting of policing resources. DCMS has also reminded its arms-length bodies that it is Government policy that statues and memorials, however contentious, should be retained and their presence explained in order to help educate people about all aspects of Britain’s past.

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