Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will (a) expand the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) model beyond the current 20 police force areas and (b) commit to long-term funding for that Unit; and what steps her Department is taking to strengthen local efforts to tackle serious violent crime.
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.