Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Johanna Baxter and Yvette Cooper

Monday 2nd June 2025 Commons Chamber

[Yvette Cooper]

Obviously, police forces have to make their own operational decisions, but we do believe that town centres need to be a particular focus of neighbourhood policing, and when it comes to preventing youth crime, including knife crime. Sussex police are getting 64 additional neighbourhood police officers and police community support officers under the neighbourhood policing guarantee this year, but we are also focusing on hotspot policing, targeting the areas with the highest knife crime.

[Johanna Baxter (Paisley and Renfrewshire South) (Lab)]

11. What steps her Department is taking to tackle illegal working.