Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to undertake an equalities impact assessment on the implementation of serious violence reduction orders.

We published a policy equality statement for the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in September 2021. This document includes a policy equality assessment on SVROs. The full assessment can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-2021-equality-statements/home-office-measures-in-the-police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-equalities-impact-assessment

We will pilot and evaluate SVROs in four police force areas before a decision is made on national roll out. Ministers will be required to have due regard to the Public Sector Equality Duty in taking decisions in relation to implementation and the pilot in due course. We will, therefore, ensure that the equalities assessment is kept up to date.

The Government is working with the pilot police forces to agree the parameters of the pilot evaluation and what data will need to be collected and monitored to inform the evaluation.