Police: Finance
Commons · Question 9391 · Tabled 12 Jun 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 18 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Matt Vickers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to funding for (a) Violence Reduction Units, (b) the Serious Violence Duty, (c) Regional Organised Crime Units, (d) hotspot policing gra
Answer
Answered by Sarah Jones, 18 Jun 2026
This government is committed to halving knife crime within a decade, and in April 2026 published a Plan to Halve Knife Crime. This included Home Office investment of over £130m in knife crime programmes including sustained funding of over £66 million for ...