Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the National Violence Disorder Programme became operational.

The National Violent Disorder Programme consisted of the police’s activation of the National Mobilisation Plan on 1st August; the Government commitment that the Police Special Grant would be used to support forces with the additional costs incurred in policing the disorder; and the criminal justice system moving at pace to bring swift justice to offenders.

We are committed to working with the police to ensure that the future of the Programme is suitably designed to tackle policing challenges of the future.