Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to allocate additional resources for local youth and community services provision to reduce knife crime and other violent crimes; and if so how those resources will be allocated.

Our Serious Violence Strategy sets out the Government response to violent crime and includes a number of commitments to provide support to young people and communities to help prevent them being drawn into violent crime in the first place including providing £1.5m through our (anti-knife crime) Community Fund and £17.7m to 29 projects through our Early Intervention Youth Fund.

In addition, we recently announced a new £200m youth endowment fund which will provide support over the next 10 years for those young people most at risk of serious violence. This is in addition to resources the Government has already committed through the Troubled Families programme, the National Citizens programme, and the Trusted Relationship Fund.