Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date the Serious Violence Taskforce is next due to meet.

As part of the Government’s ever-ambitious programme of activity to tackle crime, we are re-designing our Governance frameworks and discontinuing the Serious Violence Task Force in its current form.

The Prime Minister and Home Secretary are driving a united government response with a new cross-Whitehall Crime and Justice Task Force to ensure we use every lever at our disposal to fight crime.

We have also established comprehensive governance arrangements to make sure the ambitions of the Prime Minister’s Task Force are delivered on the ground – including the National Policing Board chaired by the Home Secretary.

Meanwhile, we will continue to engage with our wider stakeholders, whose partnership remains critical to our work to reduce violent crime.