Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Luke Evans Excerpts
Monday 22nd May 2023

(1 year, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jonathan Gullis Portrait Jonathan Gullis (Stoke-on-Trent North) (Con)
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19. What steps she is taking to reduce antisocial behaviour.

Luke Evans Portrait Dr Luke Evans (Bosworth) (Con)
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23. What steps she is taking to reduce antisocial behaviour.

Suella Braverman Portrait The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Suella Braverman)
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Antisocial behaviour brings misery and menace. On 27 March, the Government launched the antisocial behaviour action plan, giving the relevant agencies all the tools they need and communities confidence that it will not be tolerated. The plan focuses on making communities safer, building local pride, prevention and early intervention. These proposals will ensure perpetrators are punished and help to restore pride in our communities.

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Suella Braverman Portrait Suella Braverman
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My hon. Friend does a great job of standing up for his constituents on antisocial behaviour. In March, we launched the action plan to crack down on precisely the behaviour he has been talking about. The plan is backed by more than £160 million of new funding. That includes funding for an increased police and other uniformed presence in ASB hotspots. I am glad that his force has also been chosen as one of the pilots.

Luke Evans Portrait Dr Evans
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I am pleased to see the plan being brought forward, because only last week I was speaking to parish councillors from Bagworth who have had real problems with vandalism and graffiti in some of their playgrounds —so much so that they are thinking of closing them. I have heard of this happening in places such as Earl Shilton and Barwell, too. Will the Home Secretary say how the plan will support communities such as mine?

Suella Braverman Portrait Suella Braverman
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I was pleased to visit Leicestershire police force some months ago. I am committed to supporting communities and the police. I am pleased that Leicestershire police has received £2.8 million through four rounds of the safer streets fund, including £800,000 in the current round, to fund projects such as youth diversion activities, antisocial behaviour education programmes, and target hardening. We have funded several initiatives, and that is how we work together with other agencies to ensure that our streets are safer, communities can restore pride, and ultimately that criminals are put behind bars.