Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on reducing serious violent crime.

Tackling serious violence is a priority for this government. Through our twin-track approach, combining tough enforcement with programmes that divert young people away from crime, we are driving down levels of violent crime. And I’m proud that since 2010, violence is down 37% under this Conservative Government.

Since 2019, we have invested £340m in the areas most affected by violence, funding our ‘Grip’ hotspot policing programme and Violence Reduction Units to tackle the root causes of serious violence.

In their first three years of funded delivery, these programmes have collectively prevented an estimated 136,000 violence without injury offences.