To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) methods and (b) technologies her Department has recommended to (i) police forces and (ii) local authorities for controlling the unlawful assembly of young people. (177990)

The Government have provided police and local authorities with a number of legislative options to maintain public order on our streets. The use of tactics, methods and technologies to control the unlawful assembly of young people, working within these legislative options, are operational matters for the police working with local authorities.