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1348627

registered interest
date	20/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Violence Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department disbanded the Serious Violence Taskforce; and whether her Department plans to reconvene that Taskforce.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	36697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>The Serious Violence Taskforce was established in 2018 to oversee the implementation of the Serious Violence Strategy. It last met on 26 June 2019 and the Government is very grateful for the work of the Taskforce which brought together Ministers and key partners.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister and Home Secretary are driving a united government response to ensure we use every lever at our disposal to fight crime. To effectively support this, we have redesigned our governance and decided to discontinue the Serious Violence Task Force.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2020, the Prime Minister announced a new Cabinet Committee on crime and justice – the Crime and Justice Taskforce – with serious violence being a priority area of focus. The Crime and Justice Taskforce is chaired by the Prime Minister, with core membership from the Home Secretary (deputy chair); Chancellor of the Exchequer; Secretary of State for Justice; Attorney General; and the Minister for Crime and Policing. Other government departments including Department for Education and Department of Health and Social Care attend the Crime and Justice Taskforce, depending on the agenda of each meeting.</p><p> </p><p>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.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2021 10:11:50 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1236683

registered interest
date	22/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Violence Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the most recent meeting of the Serious Violence Taskforce took place.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	93640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2021 answer text <p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Meanwhile, we will continue to engage with our wider stakeholders, whose partnership remains critical to our work to reduce violent crime.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 93641 question first answered 06/01/2021 11:06:18 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1236684

registered interest
date	22/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Violence Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date the Serious Violence Taskforce is next due to meet.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	93641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2021 answer text <p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Meanwhile, we will continue to engage with our wider stakeholders, whose partnership remains critical to our work to reduce violent crime.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 93640 question first answered 06/01/2021 11:06:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1193688

registered interest
date	06/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Violence Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the serious violence taskforce last met.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	43989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2020 answer text <p>The Serious Violence Taskforce was established in 2018 to oversee the implementation of the Serious Violence Strategy. It last met on 26 June 2019.</p><p>The Government remains incredibly grateful for the work of the Taskforce which brought together Ministers, senior leaders and key partners. The Taskforce influenced additional action and investment in this area, for example through the creation of the new £200m Youth Endowment Fund, the consultation on the new duty on agencies to reduce serious violence and the launch of the Independent Review of Drugs Misuse.</p><p>The Government’s Manifesto set out an ambitious package of reforms to deliver on the people’s priorities and tackle violent crime and safeguard people’s streets and neighbourhoods. The Prime Minister and Home Secretary are driving this with a new cross-Whitehall Crime and Justice Taskforce to ensure we use every lever at our disposal to fight crime.</p><p>We will consider the future role for the Serious Violence Taskforce in delivering these priorities, within this context.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 43990 question first answered 14/05/2020 13:28:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1193689

registered interest
date	06/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Violence Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the serious violence taskforce next plans to meet.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	43990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2020 answer text <p>The Serious Violence Taskforce was established in 2018 to oversee the implementation of the Serious Violence Strategy. It last met on 26 June 2019.</p><p>The Government remains incredibly grateful for the work of the Taskforce which brought together Ministers, senior leaders and key partners. The Taskforce influenced additional action and investment in this area, for example through the creation of the new £200m Youth Endowment Fund, the consultation on the new duty on agencies to reduce serious violence and the launch of the Independent Review of Drugs Misuse.</p><p>The Government’s Manifesto set out an ambitious package of reforms to deliver on the people’s priorities and tackle violent crime and safeguard people’s streets and neighbourhoods. The Prime Minister and Home Secretary are driving this with a new cross-Whitehall Crime and Justice Taskforce to ensure we use every lever at our disposal to fight crime.</p><p>We will consider the future role for the Serious Violence Taskforce in delivering these priorities, within this context.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 43989 question first answered 14/05/2020 13:28:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1176392

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Violence Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the serious violence taskforce last met.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	12829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2020 answer text <p>The Serious Violence Taskforce was established in 2018 to oversee the implementation of the Serious Violence Strategy. It last met on 26 June 2019.</p><p>The Government remains incredibly grateful for the work of the Taskforce which brought together Ministers, senior leaders and key partners. The Taskforce influenced additional action and investment in this area, for example through the creation of the new £200m Youth Endowment Fund, the consultation on the new duty on agencies to reduce serious violence and the launch of the Independent Review of Drugs Misuse.</p><p>The Government’s Manifesto set out an ambitious package of reforms to deliver on the people’s priorities and tackle violent crime and safeguard people’s streets and neighbourhoods. The Prime Minister and Home Secretary are driving this with a new cross-Whitehall Crime and Justice Taskforce to ensure we use every lever at our disposal to fight crime.</p><p>We will consider the future role for the Serious Violence Taskforce in delivering these priorities, within this context.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 12830 question first answered 10/06/2020 12:04:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1176393

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Violence Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the serious violence taskforce is next planned to meet.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	12830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2020 answer text <p>The Serious Violence Taskforce was established in 2018 to oversee the implementation of the Serious Violence Strategy. It last met on 26 June 2019.</p><p>The Government remains incredibly grateful for the work of the Taskforce which brought together Ministers, senior leaders and key partners. The Taskforce influenced additional action and investment in this area, for example through the creation of the new £200m Youth Endowment Fund, the consultation on the new duty on agencies to reduce serious violence and the launch of the Independent Review of Drugs Misuse.</p><p>The Government’s Manifesto set out an ambitious package of reforms to deliver on the people’s priorities and tackle violent crime and safeguard people’s streets and neighbourhoods. The Prime Minister and Home Secretary are driving this with a new cross-Whitehall Crime and Justice Taskforce to ensure we use every lever at our disposal to fight crime.</p><p>We will consider the future role for the Serious Violence Taskforce in delivering these priorities, within this context.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 12829 question first answered 10/06/2020 12:04:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1122187

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Violence Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times the serious violence taskforce has met since its creation in April 2018; and how many members of the taskforce attended each meeting.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	245576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Serious Violence Taskforce was established to oversee and drive im-plementation of Serious Violence Strategy launched in April 2018. The Taskforce has met nine times, on 26 April, 11 June, 17 July, 22 October, 21 November, 9 January 2019, 11 February, 26 March and 24 April.</p><p>Chaired by the Home Secretary, the Taskforce brings together Ministers, Members of Parliament, the Mayor of London, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Director General of the National Crime Agency, other senior police leaders, and public sector and voluntary sector chief executives.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/04/2019 14:32:00 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1105226

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Violence Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether representatives from the (a) Department of Health and (b) Department of Education have been to each meeting of the serious violence taskforce.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	237165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The Serious Violence Taskforce, chaired by the Home Secretary, brings together partners from within government and across sectors to drive forward implementation of the Serious Violence Strategy. These partners include representatives from the Department for Education and representatives from the Health sectors who have been present at each of the Taskforce meetings. The Minister of State for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention attended the last meeting of the Serious Violence Taskforce and is now a permanent member.</p><p><br>Due to the nature of the discussions of the Serious Violence Taskforce, the minutes and actions of the meeting are not available publicly so to ensure an open discussion. The Taskforce is a valuable forum and it has led to the Home Secretary’s recent announcements on a new £200m Youth Endowment Fund, a consultation on the proposed new legal duty to support the public health approach to tackling violence, an independent review of drug misuse, and informed the recent announcement of £100m to support a police surge and investment in Violence Reduction Units.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 237166 question first answered 02/04/2019 16:08:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1105227

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Violence Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the (a) agendas and (b) attendees of each meeting of the serious violence taskforce from its inception to date.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	237166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The Serious Violence Taskforce, chaired by the Home Secretary, brings together partners from within government and across sectors to drive forward implementation of the Serious Violence Strategy. These partners include representatives from the Department for Education and representatives from the Health sectors who have been present at each of the Taskforce meetings. The Minister of State for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention attended the last meeting of the Serious Violence Taskforce and is now a permanent member.</p><p><br>Due to the nature of the discussions of the Serious Violence Taskforce, the minutes and actions of the meeting are not available publicly so to ensure an open discussion. The Taskforce is a valuable forum and it has led to the Home Secretary’s recent announcements on a new £200m Youth Endowment Fund, a consultation on the proposed new legal duty to support the public health approach to tackling violence, an independent review of drug misuse, and informed the recent announcement of £100m to support a police surge and investment in Violence Reduction Units.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 237165 question first answered 02/04/2019 16:08:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh