Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Jim Cunningham Excerpts
Monday 15th July 2019

(5 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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The hon. Lady raises an important point and it shows precisely why we are planning to introduce the public health duty—to get more Departments and public agencies to work together in providing early intervention through many different types of programme. She is right to highlight alternative provision and some of the issues associated with it, especially how some of those children, sadly, become the target of gangs, and we are doing more work across government.

Jim Cunningham Portrait Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) (Lab)
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22. What is the Home Secretary doing with other Departments in the spending review to fund youth centres properly? That would go some way to tackling youth crime.

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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When it comes to early intervention, youth activities, youth clubs and the kind of thing we have just heard about in Southend are the sort of important work that we want to support more. I have talked about the £220 million of early intervention funding, which is a record amount, and it will go towards doing that, supporting some 200 different projects.