Written Question·Home Office·UIN 21236
Crimes of Violence
Tabled: 18 December 2024
Answered: 9 January 2025
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of trends in the level of violent crime during heatwaves in 2024.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThere is a wide body of academic research pointing to associations between short-term increased temperatures and violent crime, but the Home Office has no plans to conduct any future specific research in this area in relation to heatwaves in 2024.