Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the use of sport to tackle anti-social behaviour in communities.

The Government introduced a range of flexible tools and powers to tackle anti-social behaviour through the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.

The powers are deliberately local in nature. Home Office statutory guidance, which was updated in January 2021, supports local agencies to work together to prevent and respond to anti-social behaviour in a way that takes account of the needs of the victim, the perpetrator and the wider community.

The Home Secretary regularly meets her Cabinet colleagues to discuss government priorities, which include crime and anti-social behaviour.