Correspondence Mar. 08 2024
Committee: Welsh Affairs Committee (Department: Wales Office)Found: Correspondence between the Chair and the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales HC 100 Correspondence
Mar. 06 2024
Source Page: Spring Budget 2024 speechFound: Burglaries and violent crime have halved over the last 14 years and we invested in 20,000 more police
Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) economy, but will also grow aspects of Government spending—for example, there will be an expansion in violence - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) The reforms to stamp duty and the reduction in capital gains will help millions of property owners. - Speech Link
3: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) Violence reduction units to tackle knife crime, which I have been campaigning for with the Chancellor - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Crime is up, the justice system is dysfunctional, our schools are squeezing their budgets and our youth - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) Youth work saves £500 million annually by preventing incidents of antisocial behaviour, knife crime and - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) report, each reduction in the number of youth centres corresponds to an increase in knife crime. - Speech Link
3: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) In 2020, the all-party parliamentary group on child criminal exploitation and knife crime found that - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) Violence reduction units are dedicated police units that have a proven track record of reducing knife - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) Since 2019, we have invested £160 million in 20 violence reduction units across England and Wales, and - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) Hospital admissions for knife crime and equivalent have fallen by 25% since 2019, and overall knife crime - Speech Link
4: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) report, which recommended violence reduction units. - Speech Link
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help tackle knife crime in (a) Enfield North Constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Since 2019, the Home Office has provided over £43m of funding for a London Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) (including £9.5m this year) which is providing a multi-agency, preventative response designed to tackle the drivers of serious violence and knife crime. In addition, we have invested over £60m (including c.£8.9m this year) in ‘hotspot policing’ to boost the policing response to serious violence in London and provide high-visibility police patrols and problem-solving tactics in the streets and neighbourhoods most affected.
VRUs are tasked with investing in evidence-based approaches designed to steer vulnerable young people away from involvement in violence. As part of this approach, the London VRU is funding local interventions in Enfield including an outreach and detached youth team which delivers after school activities and creative sessions, 1-1 holistic support for young people, mentoring sessions and sports sessions for children and young people. Alongside this, the policing hot spot response programme is targeting key locations in Enfield Town and Fore Street. In addition to additional visible police patrols, policing interventions delivered through this programme in Enfield have included work to prevent robberies of school pupils and work to target males who were assaulting sex workers.
The government is also taking forward a programme of national activity to drive down knife crime. This includes recent consultation on new legislative proposals, including a ban of zombie-style knives and machetes. The government response was published on 30 August 2023. Following careful consideration of the responses to the consultation, a Statutory Instrument was laid in Parliament on 25 January 2024. Once the legislation has been approved by Parliament, a surrender scheme will be launched this summer to remove these items from our streets and once this has been completed, the manufacture, supply, sale and possession of zombie-style knives and machetes will be outlawed from 24 September 2024. This will cover face to face and online sales.
Additionally, through the Criminal Justice Bill 2023, which is currently progressing through parliament, we are providing more powers for police to seize knives held in private that they believe will be used for unlawful violence, increasing the maximum penalty for the offences of selling prohibited weapons and selling knives to under 18s and creating a new offence of possessing an article with blade or point or an offensive weapon with intent to commit unlawful violence.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help tackle violent assaults in (a) Enfield North Constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Since 2019, the Home Office has provided over £43m of funding for a London Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) (including £9.5m this year) which is providing a multi-agency, preventative response designed to tackle the drivers of serious violence and knife crime. In addition, we have invested over £60m (including c.£8.9m this year) in ‘hotspot policing’ to boost the policing response to serious violence in London and provide high-visibility police patrols and problem-solving tactics in the streets and neighbourhoods most affected.
VRUs are tasked with investing in evidence-based approaches designed to steer vulnerable young people away from involvement in violence. As part of this approach, the London VRU is funding local interventions in Enfield including an outreach and detached youth team which delivers after school activities and creative sessions, 1-1 holistic support for young people, mentoring sessions and sports sessions for children and young people. Alongside this, the policing hot spot response programme is targeting key locations in Enfield Town and Fore Street. In addition to additional visible police patrols, policing interventions delivered through this programme in Enfield have included work to prevent robberies of school pupils and work to target males who were assaulting sex workers.
The government is also taking forward a programme of national activity to drive down knife crime. This includes recent consultation on new legislative proposals, including a ban of zombie-style knives and machetes. The government response was published on 30 August 2023. Following careful consideration of the responses to the consultation, a Statutory Instrument was laid in Parliament on 25 January 2024. Once the legislation has been approved by Parliament, a surrender scheme will be launched this summer to remove these items from our streets and once this has been completed, the manufacture, supply, sale and possession of zombie-style knives and machetes will be outlawed from 24 September 2024. This will cover face to face and online sales.
Additionally, through the Criminal Justice Bill 2023, which is currently progressing through parliament, we are providing more powers for police to seize knives held in private that they believe will be used for unlawful violence, increasing the maximum penalty for the offences of selling prohibited weapons and selling knives to under 18s and creating a new offence of possessing an article with blade or point or an offensive weapon with intent to commit unlawful violence.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help tackle arson in (a) Enfield North Constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Since 2019, the Home Office has provided over £43m of funding for a London Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) (including £9.5m this year) which is providing a multi-agency, preventative response designed to tackle the drivers of serious violence and knife crime. In addition, we have invested over £60m (including c.£8.9m this year) in ‘hotspot policing’ to boost the policing response to serious violence in London and provide high-visibility police patrols and problem-solving tactics in the streets and neighbourhoods most affected.
VRUs are tasked with investing in evidence-based approaches designed to steer vulnerable young people away from involvement in violence. As part of this approach, the London VRU is funding local interventions in Enfield including an outreach and detached youth team which delivers after school activities and creative sessions, 1-1 holistic support for young people, mentoring sessions and sports sessions for children and young people. Alongside this, the policing hot spot response programme is targeting key locations in Enfield Town and Fore Street. In addition to additional visible police patrols, policing interventions delivered through this programme in Enfield have included work to prevent robberies of school pupils and work to target males who were assaulting sex workers.
The government is also taking forward a programme of national activity to drive down knife crime. This includes recent consultation on new legislative proposals, including a ban of zombie-style knives and machetes. The government response was published on 30 August 2023. Following careful consideration of the responses to the consultation, a Statutory Instrument was laid in Parliament on 25 January 2024. Once the legislation has been approved by Parliament, a surrender scheme will be launched this summer to remove these items from our streets and once this has been completed, the manufacture, supply, sale and possession of zombie-style knives and machetes will be outlawed from 24 September 2024. This will cover face to face and online sales.
Additionally, through the Criminal Justice Bill 2023, which is currently progressing through parliament, we are providing more powers for police to seize knives held in private that they believe will be used for unlawful violence, increasing the maximum penalty for the offences of selling prohibited weapons and selling knives to under 18s and creating a new offence of possessing an article with blade or point or an offensive weapon with intent to commit unlawful violence.
Mentions:
1: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) We have a local campaign against knife crime, and at the latest working group meeting we discussed deterrents - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) that clear link to crime. - Speech Link
3: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) issues, which have led to rising levels of violence. - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, there is a solemn duty on prison governors to prepare ex-offenders - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) reduction units in addressing knife crime. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, knife crime is up by 70% since 2015 and, according to the YMCA, youth services were cut by - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) As regards knife crime across the country, the rise is driven largely by the situation in London. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) My Lords, violence reduction units can definitely reduce knife crime, as has been shown time and time - Speech Link