Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the Chief Constable of Police for Derbyshire's annual terrorism and domestic extremism report for the Strategic Governance Board of November 2017, why a division of the East Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit provided significant intelligence support for the policing of anti-fracking protests; and when protests against fracking started to be classified as a terrorism- or domestic-extremism related issue.

The prioritisation of investigative resources is an operational matter for the police. They are responsible for managing demonstrations to preserve the peace, to uphold the law and to prevent the commission of offences.

Police tactics and decisions on how to achieve these objectives, and the resources required, are matters for the independent operational judgement of chief officers.