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1694160

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the delivery of the Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	17326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>We are making good progress on implementation of the Government’s Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan that was published in March 2023. We have banned nitrous oxide, increased fines for fly-tipping, littering and graffiti, and over 80,000 hours of uniformed patrols have been undertaken, targeting areas blighted by anti-social behaviour in 10 police force areas.</p><p>From 1st April we will be providing funding of £66m to every police force in England and Wales to support a hotspot enforcement approach for both anti-social behaviour and serious violence across England and Wales from April onwards.</p><p>We are strengthening police and local authority powers to tackle anti-social behaviour through a number of measures in the Criminal Justice Bill.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 12/03/2024 14:22:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1693238

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he is taking steps to provide additional (a) training and (b) resources to police forces to help tackle neighbourhood disputes.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	16714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>Decisions about local policing, are for operationally independent Chief Constables. They are best placed to use their local knowledge and experience to serve local communities, including incidents such as neighbourhood disputes where there is a need for the police to be involved.</p><p>Democratically elected PCCs, or mayors with these functions, are responsible for holding Chief Constables to account for their running of the force.</p><p>As set out at the National Policing Board on 31 January, we do however, expect Chief Constables and PCCs to put neighbourhoods at the heart of local policing plans. More generally, the Government is committed to giving the police the resources they need.</p><p>We have delivered our commitment to recruit 20,000 additional police officers, with over 149,000 officers in England and Wales, which is higher than the previous peak before the Police Uplift Programme in March 2010.</p><p>We also confirmed in January a total police funding settlement of up to £18.4 billion in 2024-25, an increase of up to £842.9 million when compared to 2023-24.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 12/03/2024 14:16:14 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1693239

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking with local authorities to help communities to tackle antisocial behaviour.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	16715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>In March 2023, the Government launched the Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Action Plan to crack down on ASB, restoring people’s confidence that these crimes will be quickly and visibly punished. The Action Plan applies to all local authorities across England and Wales, including York.</p> answering member constituency Redcar answering member printed Jacob Young question first answered 12/03/2024 15:41:50 answering member 4825 label Biography information for Jacob Young
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1693320

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department has taken with local authorities to tackle anti-social behaviour in (a) Ashford constituency and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Ashford
tabling member printed	Damian Green
uin	16580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>In March 2023, the Government launched the Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Action Plan to crack down on ASB, restoring people’s confidence that these crimes will be quickly and visibly punished. The Action Plan applies to all local authorities across England and Wales, including Ashford.</p> answering member constituency Redcar answering member printed Jacob Young question first answered 12/03/2024 15:37:41 answering member 4825 label Biography information for Jacob Young
tabling member	76 label Biography information for Damian Green

1683101

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of anti-social behaviour in (a) Dewsbury constituency, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) England in each of the last three years; and what steps his Department is taking to tackle anti-social behaviour in those areas.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Mark Eastwood
uin	10291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>On 27 March 2023, the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-action-plan ensuring the police, local authorities and other relevant agencies have the tools and powers they need to tackle anti-social behaviour.</p><p>The plan is backed by £160m of funding and includes supporting the provision of Immediate Justice, by issuing out of court disposals with conditions to swiftly repair any damage. This has started in 10 initial trailblazer police force areas, including West Yorkshire. In addition, we are funding a police and other uniformed presence to clamp down on anti-social behaviour, targeting hotspots. Initially we are working with 10 police force areas, but we will be rolling this enforcement approach across every police force area in England and Wales later this year.</p><p>The Office for National Statistics annually publishes anti-social behaviour incidents reported to the Police by Police Force Area and Community Safety Partnership. The latest available data covering year to March 2023 can be found here:</p><p>Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk) (Table P12 for England and West Yorkshire police force area figures).</p><p>Recorded crime data by Community Safety Partnership area - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk) (Tables C6 and C7 for Kirklees Community Safety Partnership (CSP) figures, which include the area of Dewsbury).</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 10290 question first answered 25/01/2024 17:33:59 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4807 label Biography information for Mark Eastwood

1673252

registered interest
date	27/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 60 g) of the Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan, published by his Department on 27 March 2023, whether that stakeholder engagement has been completed; which stakeholders were consulted; and if he will publish the results of the engagement.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	3869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>‘Cuckooing’ is most commonly associated with the county lines drug distribution model. That’s why, as part of our ambitious 10-year Drugs Strategy, we are investing up to £145m over three years to tackle drugs supply and county lines activity, taking action against county lines holders and safeguarding children and vulnerable people.</p><p>The targeted stakeholder engagement exercise, announced as part of the Government’s Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan in March 2023, was conducted over the spring/summer of this year. Officials engaged on the potential merits and scope of a new offence to tackle cuckooing with a variety of key stakeholders such as the police, CJS partners, local authorities, other Government departments, specialists in the field which included academics and NGOs, and the Devolved Governments.</p><p>The results of the engagement exercise revealed there are a range of powers and tools available to disrupt cuckooing activity and officials continue to work closely with police and wider partners to both raise awareness of cuckooing and share effective practice to tackle this abhorrent practice.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/12/2023 16:17:39 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1663227

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of community triggers in reducing anti-social behaviour.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	201081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>On 27 March, the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-action-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-action-plan</a>) ensuring the police, local authorities and other relevant agencies have the powers and tools they need to tackle the blight of anti-social behaviour facing communities across England and Wales.</p><p>The plan is backed by £160m of funding. This includes up to £60m to fund an increased police and other uniformed presence to clamp down on anti-social behaviour, targeting hotspots. Initially we are working with 10 police force areas, but from 2024 we will support a hotspot approach across every police force area in England and Wales. We are also providing up to £50m to support the provision of Immediate Justice, by issuing out of court disposals with conditions to swiftly repair any damage – the aim being for them to start within 48 hours of referral. This will start in a number of trailblazer police force areas and be rolled out across England and Wales from 2024.</p><p>As part of the Action Plan, we re-launched the Community Trigger as the ‘Anti-social Behaviour Case Review’, providing greater clarity on how and when it can be used, and encouraging agencies to automatically conduct reviews once the threshold has been hit. We updated the gov.uk pages <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/anti-social-behaviour-asb-case-review-also-known-as-the-community-trigger" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/anti-social-behaviour-asb-case-review-also-known-as-the-community-trigger</a> to raise awareness of this tool to give victims and communities a say in the way that complaints of ASB are dealt with.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 201080 question first answered 23/10/2023 11:21:31 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1653798

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to tackle antisocial behaviour by large groups of people.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	194714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>On 27 March, the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-action-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-action-plan</a>) which sets out a new framework for the Government, police forces, Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), local authorities and other partners – such as housing associations and youth offending teams – to work together to prevent and tackle anti-social behaviour.</p><p>This plan is backed by £160m of funding. This includes up to £60m to fund an increased police and other uniformed presence to clamp down on anti-social behaviour, targeting hotspots. We are working with 10 police force areas who have started their patrols in July 2023 and from 2024 we will support a hotspot approach across every police force area in England and Wales, which will see thousands of additional patrols taking place in places blighted by anti-social behaviour.</p><p>In addition, we are providing up to £50m to establish new Immediate Justice pathways aimed at delivering swift, visible punishment for anti-social behaviour. This has started in 10 initial trailblazer police force areas in July 2023 and will be rolled out across England and Wales in 2024.</p><p>On 6 July, we launched a further fifth round of the Safer Streets Fund, which will support local initiatives aimed at increasing the safety of public spaces, including town centres, by tackling neighbourhood crime, anti-social behaviour and violence against women and girls. Since the fund launched in 2020, we have invested £120 million through four rounds supporting 270 projects across England and Wales, with a range of interventions including CCTV cameras.</p><p>The Crime Survey for England and Wales indicates that in the year to December 2022, overall crime (excluding fraud and computer misuse) was 52% lower than in the year to March 2010.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 24/07/2023 14:20:30 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1649468

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure effective investigations by the police on incidents of antisocial behaviour.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	905753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>Mr Speaker, on 27 March, the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan, increasing funding for Police and Crime Commissioners by over £100m.</p><p>The Plan will focus on making communities safer, building local pride, prevention, early intervention and improving data, reporting and accountability. These proposals will ensure perpetrators are investigated and punished, helping to restore pride in our communities.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/07/2023 15:24:44 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1639675

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle the root causes of anti-social behaviour.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	186444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>On 27 March, the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan giving the police, local authorities and other relevant agencies the tools they need to tackle anti-social behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>This plan is backed by £160m of funding and focuses on stronger punishment, making communities safer, building local pride, and prevention and early intervention. Under the plan, one million extra hours of youth support will be made available in anti-social behaviour hotspots and we will invest more to intervene early with at risk young people via one-to-one support.</p><p> </p><p>The volume of anti-social behaviour incidents recorded by Hampshire police fell by 22% in the latest year (to March 2022). The latest available data covering year to March 2022 can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2Fcrimeandjustice%2Fdatasets%2Fpoliceforceareadatatables&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBirol.Mehmet%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ccd7c11a86a874dc2305a08db5c408ea4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638205204562790565%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FxLL%2Bsx%2BF8wwKl2dIyCk%2BVTiJumRVnhOPO6%2BiikJjUo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 186442 186443 186445 question first answered 25/05/2023 16:39:45 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan