Sleeping Rough: Arrests
(asked on 24th April 2023) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for his Department's policies of reports that 1,173 people have been arrested in England and Wales since 2021 under the Vagrancy Act 1824.
This question was answered on 2nd May 2023
The Home Office does not collect data on the number of people arrested under the Vagrancy Act.
The Government is fully committed to repealing and replacing the antiquated Vagrancy Act which makes begging and some forms of rough sleeping a criminal offence.