Written Question·Home Office·UIN 100894

Violence Reduction Units

Tabled: 17 December 2025
Answered: 9 January 2026

Question

Vicky Foxcroft

LabourLewisham North

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of Violence Reduction Units in reducing youth violence.

Answer

Sarah Jones
Crime prevention is key to the government’s Safer Streets mission and ambition to halve knife crime. Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) play an important role by uniting local partners to collectively identify and address the underlying drivers of serious vi...

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