Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 2:37 pm on 22 May 2024.
Thomas Tugendhat
Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
2:37,
22 May 2024
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. With apologies, I used some figures I was not entirely sure of. I have now had them confirmed and just wanted to correct the record very slightly. I said that there had been more than 600 arrests from those protests, and that is correct, but it was 15, not 50, under the Terrorism Act 2000. My apologies.
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