Written Question·Home Office·UIN 100897
Violence Reduction Units: Finance
Tabled: 17 December 2025
Answered: 9 January 2026
Question
Vicky Foxcroft
Labour — Lewisham North
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of providing longer term funding for violence reduction units, beyond the current one year settlement.
Answer
Sarah JonesCrime 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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