Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps has she taken to help tackle crime in (a) Slough constituency and (b) Thames Valley region.

This Government has put prevention front and centre of our plans to improve the lives of people across the United Kingdom. The Safer Streets Mission is the vehicle to drive delivery across Government to halve violence against women and girls, halve knife crime, and restore confidence in the policing and justice system.

As part of the Government’s Safer Streets mission, the Home Secretary has made a clear commitment to strengthen neighbourhood policing through the introduction of a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee. This includes delivering an additional 13,000 police officers, Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and special constables in neighbourhood policing roles up and down the country and ensuring every community has a named officer to turn to. Every part of the country needs to benefit from this pledge and that includes Slough and the Thames Valley region.

Finally, we are committed to intervening early to stop young people being drawn into crime, improving opportunities for children, and the mental health of young people. An essential part of achieving this will be the delivery of the Young Futures Programme. This will consist of the creation of Prevention Partnerships in every area and a network of Young Futures Hubs which will support young people, including those identified by Prevention Partnerships, with early adopters commencing in financial year 25/26.