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	registered interest
	date	14/09/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gangs
	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 support the Economic and Social Research Council to fund additional research into the contemporary state of criminal gangs and their activities to help inform policy solutions to (a) reduce gang membership and (b) tackle the problems that gangs cause.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	105292
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is a non-departmental public body (NDPB). The Government is committed to the Haldane principle, whereby funding decisions are made by independent experts and as such government departments are not in a position to intervene in that decision making process on behalf of particular projects or individuals.</p><p> </p><p>Research funding is awarded on a competitive basis and the decision to fund projects such as potential work on criminal gangs is taken by the ESRC following a peer review and wider commissioning process. Grant funding is very competitive, and it is not possible to fund all fundable proposals. The commissioning processes are, however, designed to ensure that all research areas are treated fairly.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 09/10/2017 16:24:29 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

987958

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gangs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) gang members in England, (b) gang members who are under the age of 18 and (c) children in England who are the sibling of a known gang member.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	179171
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>Information on the number of gang members is not collected centrally by the Home Office. We do know from our Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation local area reviews that some areas and police forces collect information local-ly on gang members but this is operational information which is locally held.</p><p>Our Serious Violence Strategy sets out our analysis of recent increases in violent crime and shows that increases in serious have been accompanied by a shift towards younger victims and perpetrators.</p><p>Our analysis also looks at the evidence of the key risk factors (e.g. school ab-sence, peer pressure etc.) which may mean a young person has a greater propensity to get involved in crime than would otherwise be the case. It also sets out the evidence supporting the importance of early intervention with young people and encouraging positive activities to engage them in and build links with their community.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/10/2018 16:01:32 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown