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registered interest
date	06/09/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to tackle knife crime in (a) Slough constituency and (b) the South East.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	48469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government is determined to tackle serious violence, including knife crime, and has made £130m available this financial year (22/23) to do so. This includes £64m for our network of 20 Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) which bring together local partners to tackle the drivers of violence in their area, and £30m for our targeted police programme, Grip (previously Surge).</p><p>An independent evaluation of these programmes compared numbers of police-recorded violent offences taking place in the areas where these programmes operate with matched (control) areas. This found that in their first two years of operation, the programmes had together prevented an estimated 49,000 offences.</p><p>Over 10 years, we are also investing £200m in the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), which funds interventions to divert children and young people away from exploitation and serious violence.</p><p> </p><p>The previous Home Secretary visited Thames Valley Police and the VRU on 11 and 31 August. She met the Police and Crime Commissioner and other force leaders from the Southeast of England to discuss the positive work they are doing to reduce serious violence in their areas.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has provided funding to 7 police forces and VRUs across the Southeast to combat serious violence, including knife crime. The areas that receive VRU funding are London, Thames Valley, Essex, Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, and Bedfordshire.</p><p> </p><p>The Thames Valley VRU has received c £5.5m since 2019. This includes £1.16m in 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22, and a further £2m in 2022/23. The VRU also received additional investment of £787,000 in 2021/22 to deliver two programmes that capitalise on key moments where learning is expected to be best heard in a young person’s life, such as on admission to A&amp;E or in police custody.</p><p> </p><p>The Metropolitan Police and the London VRU have received a combined c.£91.1m since 2019, including c.£20.7m for this financial year. The remaining six areas have received a combined c.£54.8m since 2019, including c.£13.9m for this financial year.</p><p> </p><p>VRUs are also delivering youth interventions with their funding. Thames Valley’s VRU-funded ‘Hospital Navigators’ programme is delivered in 5 major A&amp;Es across the area, including Slough, and provides immediate support to young people attending A&amp;E because of a violent incident. This supported more than 470 vulnerable young people last year and has received additional funding from the YEF to evaluate its impact.</p><p>The South-eastern areas that receive VRU funding also receive funding for the Grip programme. Thames Valley Police have been allocated c.£4.8m over the last three years, including c.£798k for this financial year (2022/23). The Metropolitan Police have been allocated approximately £50.9m over the last three years, including £7.9m for this financial year (2022/23). The remaining six areas have received a combined c.£19.6m since 2019, including c.£3.6m in the current financial year of 2022/23.</p><p>The Government also encourages funding to be used on national weeks of action through Operation Sceptre. The latest phase of this operation took place between 16 and 22 May 2022. In the Thames Valley Police area, 13 knives were seized during enforcement action, with a further 97 being surrendered or seized during operational weapon sweeps.</p><p>In 2022/23, Thames Valley Police will receive up to £511.9m from Government Grants and precept. This is an increase of up to £28.6m compared to 2021/22. Through the Government’s Police Uplift Programme, Thames Valley Police has been allocated 609 additional officers. As of 30 June 2022, the force has recruited 442 of these.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 20/09/2022 16:29:18 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1490273

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time has been between arrest and appearing in front of magistrates for people charged with knife possession in (a) Birmingham and (b) the West Midlands in each of the last 12 years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	38791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice routinely publishes timeliness estimates of the key stages of the criminal justice system as part of the Criminal Court Statistics quarterly National Statistics release.</p><p>The published estimates cover the periods from offence to charge, charge to first listing and through from first listing to completion (at either magistrates’ and Crown Court).</p><p>The latest published information is available to March 2022 and can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Clwyd South answering member printed Simon Baynes question first answered 26/07/2022 13:04:29 answering member 4800 label Biography information for Simon Baynes
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1490274

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Police and Crime Commissioner for the West Midlands on tackling knife crime.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	38792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>Tackling knife crime is a priority and the Government is determined to crack down on the scourge of violence devastating our communities.</p><p>The Police and Crime Commissioner for the West Midlands attended a recent Home Secretary visit to Birmingham on 29 June in preparation for the Commonwealth Games.</p><p>Home Office officials are in regular contact with police forces and PCCs, including the West Midlands, about their local response to knife crime. For West Midlands, this has included recent detailed examination of local data on violent crime, and police plans to tackle it.</p><p>On 2 February 2022, the Government published a total police funding settlement of up to £16.9 billion in 2022/23, an increase of up to £1.1 billion when compared to 2021/22.</p><p>It is for Chief Constables, directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) and Mayors with PCC functions to make operational decisions including how to allocate resources based on their local knowledge and experience.</p><p>West Midlands' funding will be up to £695.6m in 2022/23, an increase of up to £40.1m when compared to 2021/22.</p><p>In addition, the West Midlands has benefited from a wide range of funding intended to intervene early and divert young people from involvement in violence. Current intervention and prevention programmes were largely initiated from 2018 / 2019 and 12 years of figures are unavailable for these programmes. The funding includes:</p><ul><li>£1.831m between 2018/19 and 2019/20 from the Early Intervention Youth Fund (EIYF). The EIYF was designed to support and prevent young people from becoming involved in violence through positive activities.</li><li>£10.11m between 2019 and 2022 to develop the West Midlands Violence Reduction Unit (VRU). VRUs bring together key local partners to identify the drivers of serious violence and deliver a coordinated and cohesive response. This includes a range of interventions to support young people at high risk of involvement in serious violence.</li><li>£7m through the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) for a range of projects to reduce serious violence. The YEF is supporting our response to serious violence by identifying what works in diverting children and young people away from involvement in serious violent crime.</li></ul> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 38793 question first answered 26/07/2022 12:09:30 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1483407

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish data on the number of knife crimes in (a) Romford constituency and (b) the London Borough of Havering in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	25758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office collects information on the number of offences involving the use of a knife or a sharp instrument recorded by the police in England and Wales at the Police Force Area level. These data can be found in the quarterly Office for National Statistics quarterly releases ‘Crime in England and Wales’.</p><p>The latest figures can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingdecember2021" target="_blank">Crime in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/07/2022 15:37:30 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1483408

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average custodial sentence length is for a prisoner convicted of a knife crime.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	25759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly ‘Knife and Offensive Weapons Statistics’ available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/knife-possession-sentencing-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/knife-possession-sentencing-quarterly</a>.</p><p>Information on sentence lengths can be found within the main data tables, specifically, table 3 Information on repeat offenders can be found in tables 7 to 9 (inclusive).</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 04/07/2022 15:36:19 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1472172

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken for a person charged with knife possession to have their first appearance before a magistrate is; and what that average length of time was in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Rob Roberts
uin	22579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the impact the pandemic has had on timeliness, and the Government is committed to continuing to work to reduce waiting times for victims, witnesses and other court users.</p><p>Over the next three financial years we are investing an extra £477 million for the Criminal Justice System to help improve waiting times for victims of crime.</p><p>We are investing £1 million in a programme of work to support the recruitment of new magistrates. Over the next three financial years we are aiming to recruit 4,000 new magistrates.</p><p>As a result of these measures, in the magistrates' court, the criminal caseload has fallen from 445,000 in July 2020 to 358,100 in April 2022.</p><p>The table below sets out timeliness of magistrates' courts cases for charge to first listing before a magistrate (known also as first hearing, or first appearance) for the offences of:</p><ul><li>Having an article with a blade or point in a public place</li><li>Having an article with a blade or point on school premises</li><li>Threaten with a blade or sharply pointed article on school premises</li><li>Threaten with blade/sharply pointed article in a public place</li></ul><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Calendar Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Charge or laying of information to first listing (mean days)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Charge or laying of information to first listing (median days)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes</p><p>1) Data excludes a small number of cases with identified data quality issues and breaches.</p><p>2) Only one offence is counted for each defendant in the case. If there is more than one offence per defendant that complete on the same day, a set of validation rules applies to select one offence only and these relate to the longest duration, seriousness and the lowest sequence number of the offence.</p><p>3) Data includes cases completed in the magistrates' courts during the specified time period, where no further action is required by the magistrates' courts.</p><p>4) Data includes cases that are sent to the Crown Court.</p><p>5) Following a technical issue a small amount of data (less than 1% of case disposals) was not included for a single day in September.</p><p>Further information on Magistrates' Courts Timeliness can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2021</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 27/06/2022 16:41:49 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1471343

registered interest
date	17/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to tackle knife crime and serious violence in Bournemouth East constituency.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	20223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>Tackling knife crime and serious violence is a priority for this Government and we are supporting the police by recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers by March 2023.</p><p>As of 31 March 2022, Dorset Police has recruited 121 additional uplift officers against a combined year 1 and 2 allocation of 99 officers. The force has been allocated 67 additional uplift officers in the final year of Uplift.</p><p>Police funding is also increasing and on 2 February 2022, the Government published a total police funding settlement of up to £16.9 billion in 2022/23. Dorset Police’s funding will be up to £159.1m in 2022/23, an increase of up to £8m when compared to 2021/22.</p><p>The Government has also made £130m available this financial year (22/23) to tackle serious violence, including murder and knife crime. This includes:</p><p>£64m for Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) which bring together local partners in the 20 areas most affected by serious violence, to tackle the drivers of violence in their area. VRUs are delivering a range of early intervention and prevention programmes to divert people away from a life of crime. They have reached over 260,000 vulnerable young people in their second year alone.</p><p>Our £30m ‘Grip’ programme operates in these same 20 areas as VRUs and is helping to drive down violence by using a highly data-driven process to identify violence hotspots – often to individual street level – and target operational activity in those areas. In 2020, a 90-day trial of this approach in Southend resulted in an overall fall in violence in the hotspots of around 30% over the period of the trial.</p><p>The combination of these two programmes has prevented an estimated 49,000 violent offences in their first two years of activity.</p><p>We are also providing £200m over 10 years for the Youth Endowment Fund, to test and evaluate what works to ensure those young people most at risk are given the opportunity to turn away from violence and lead positive lives.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 27/06/2022 14:38:36 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1436237

registered interest
date	28/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on reducing the level of knife crime.
tabling member constituency	Milton Keynes North
tabling member printed	Ben Everitt
uin	905751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing knife crime, this why we have invested £130.5 million over the last year to tackle serious violence.</p><p>This includes £35.5 million for Violence Reduction Units which draw key partners together to address the root causes of violence, and £30 million for targeted police action to deter and disrupt knife crime.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/02/2022 15:42:09 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4836 label Biography information for Ben Everitt

1436504

registered interest
date	28/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time between arrest and appearing in front of magistrates for people charged with knife possession has been in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	131203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice routinely publishes timeliness estimates of the key stages of the criminal justice system as part of the Criminal Court Statistics quarterly National Statistics release.</p><p> </p><p>The published estimates cover the periods from offence to charge, charge to first listing and from first listing to completion (at either magistrates’ or Crown Court).</p><p> </p><p>The latest published information is available to September 2021 and can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 03/03/2022 17:41:35 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1435241

registered interest
date	24/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of offences which involved a knife or sharp instrument in (a) Coventry and (b) the West Midlands in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	129148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold figures below the level of Police Force Area. In the year ending September 2020, there were 4,745 offences involving knives or sharp instruments in the West Midlands Police Force Area. This compares to 4,483 in the year ending September 2021. This represents a fall of 8% between September 2020 and September 2021.</p><p>The number of homicides recorded in the West Midlands Police Force Area involving a knife or sharp instrument over the last five years were as follows:</p><p>Year ending Sept 2017 - 23</p><p>Year ending Sept 2018 - 21</p><p>Year ending Sept 2019 - 22</p><p>Year ending Sept 2020 - 25</p><p>Year ending Sept 2021 - 23</p><p> </p><p>The number of homicides recorded in England involving a knife or sharp instrument over the last five years were as follows:</p><p>Year ending Sept 2017 - 238</p><p>Year ending Sept 2018 - 279</p><p>Year ending Sept 2019 - 237</p><p>Year ending Sept 2020 - 252</p><p>Year ending Sept 2021 - 267</p><p> </p><p>Tackling knife crime is a priority for this Government and we are supporting the police by recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers by March 2023. As at 31 December 2021, police forces in England and Wales have recruited over 11,000 additional officers as part of the Police Uplift Programme and West Midlands police force has recruited 844 additional uplift officers against a combined year 1 and 2 allocation of 730 officers.</p><p>Police funding is also increasing and, on 2 February 2022, the Government published a total police funding settlement of up to £16.9 billion in 2022/23. West Midlands Police will receive up to £694.9 million in 2022/23, an increase of up to £39.4 million when compared to 2021/22.</p><p>Since 2019, the Home Office has invested £105.5m (£35.5m this financial year) in the 18 areas worst affected by serious violence to develop Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) of which £10.11m has been allocated to the West Midlands PCC to develop the West Midlands VRU. VRUs combine the expertise of key local partners, including the police, health, education, and local authorities, to pinpoint the drivers of violence in their areas and deliver bespoke interventions in response. This includes targeted interventions with at-risk young people, ranging from behavioural therapy, social skills training, trusted adult relationships amongst many more. Over 300,000 young people have been supported by VRUs in their first two years of funding.</p><p>Additionally, we have made up to c.£17m available this financial year for additional early intervention and prevention programmes to support young people at high risk of involvement in serious violence, delivered via VRUs on top of their core funding. This includes three investments into the West Midlands, which are:</p><p>o £1.176m in high-intensity therapeutic interventions such as cognitive behavioural therapy, which the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyouthendowmentfund.org.uk%2Ftoolkit%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7CCourtney.Ducille-Smith%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ceaa36189be33457e808d08d9f86f1c36%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637813978354427413%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=LJnvftZKCrjLN%2FJDHvm3rfH6LZ343bgKA%2B9AIS5JGWU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Youth Endowment Fund’s Evidence Toolkit</a> identifies as likely to be highly effective in reducing violent crime;</p><p>o £455k in ‘teachable moment’ style interventions for young people involved in serious violence which capitalise on important moments when they are likely to be most receptive (for example, admission to A&amp;E or in police custody), connecting them to a package of support enabling a more positive life course; and</p><p>o £591k in trauma-informed training for frontline professionals to help them improve support for young people by developing a greater understanding of different types of trauma that may have been experienced by the children and young people they work with.</p><p>Since 2019 we have invested a further £136.5m to support the police across the 18 areas in England and Wales worst affected by serious violence to increase operational activity to tackle serious violence, including by delivering targeted patrols in serious violence hotspots.</p><p>Since 2019, £15.541m of this funding has been allocated to West Midlands Police. We have also invested £200m in early intervention and prevention support initiatives over 10 years to support children and young people at risk of exploitation and involvement in serious violence through the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF). The YEF will support how this government responds to serious violence by identifying what works in diverting children and young people away from involvement in serious violent crime. In total, 15 grantees in the West Midlands are in receipt of funding from all grant rounds.</p><p>We will also help the police target those who have already been convicted of knife or offensive weapon offences and who persist in unlawfully carrying a knife or a weapon with the intention to commit more violence. We have introduced Serious Violence Reduction Orders (SVROs) in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill which will give the police powers to stop and search those already convicted of knife and offensive weapon offences. West Midlands Police will be one of the four police forces to pilot SVROs.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 129149 129150 question first answered 01/03/2022 16:59:40 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher