Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Henry Smith Excerpts
Monday 3rd December 2018

(6 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Henry Smith Portrait Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)
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I, too, pay tribute to the Sussex PCC, Katy Bourne, who has successfully recently bid for almost £1 million of youth intervention funding. That is really important for my Crawley constituency, which has seen an increase in drug and knife-related crime. May I have an assurance that this partnership working with the Home Office will continue to tackle this issue?

Nick Hurd Portrait Mr Hurd
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I assure my hon. Friend that partnership working is absolutely at the heart of this Government’s approach to tackling serious violent crime and the running of drugs outside our major cities. Everything we have learnt from the examples elsewhere shows that effective multi-agency partnership works, and the Government are actively supporting that through funds such as the early intervention fund.