To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they approved the charging with public-order offences of recent demonstrators in Parliament Square, who sat down in the road, thus causing traffic disruptions and impeding access to Parliament. [HL4021]

The decision to charge individuals with public-order offences or any offences is an operational matter for the police and Crown Prosecution Service who are responsible for investigating and prosecuting alleged criminal offences.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will ask the police to delete images, photographic or other, of Members of both Houses of Parliament who visited recent demonstrations in Parliament Square and the surrounding area. [HL4022]

It is a matter for the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to decide whether images of individuals taken at demonstrations in the force area are retained or deleted.

I understand that Metropolitan Police policy is to manually review photographs of individuals taken at public-order events and they will now retain or dispose of them in accordance with the recent judgment of the Court of Appeal in Woods v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2009] EWCA Civ 414.