Debates between Alec Shelbrooke and Tim Loughton during the 2010-2015 Parliament

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Debate between Alec Shelbrooke and Tim Loughton
Monday 16th January 2012

(12 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tim Loughton Portrait Tim Loughton
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The hon. Lady is right to raise the problem of gang culture. The Government take it very seriously. The Home Secretary chairs an inter-ministerial group on gangs, on which I represent the Department for Education, but I have to say that some of the very best anti-gang projects I have seen around the country—including in London in places such as Croydon, with “Lives not Knives”—involve the voluntary sector working in partnership with the local authority. They are going into schools working with the victims of those crimes and their families, spreading best practice and saying, “Not in my name”. The very best response to the troubles we saw in the summer was from young people coming together with voluntary organisations, saying, “Not in my name will this sort of violence happen,” and coming up with constructive and positive examples. That is why Positive for Youth is such an important part of the Government’s policy.

Alec Shelbrooke Portrait Alec Shelbrooke (Elmet and Rothwell) (Con)
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4. What estimate he has made of the number of additional primary school places needed in the next decade.