Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Kirith Entwistle Excerpts
Monday 29th July 2024

(4 months, 1 week ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kirith Entwistle Portrait Kirith Entwistle (Bolton North East) (Lab)
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8. What steps her Department is taking to tackle antisocial behaviour.

Alex Barros-Curtis Portrait Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Cardiff West) (Lab)
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13. What steps her Department is taking to tackle antisocial behaviour.

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Diana Johnson Portrait The Minister of State, Home Department (Dame Diana Johnson)
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Antisocial behaviour is blighting high streets and town centres right across the country, and our communities are paying the price. That is why this Government have made tackling it a top priority. We will restore neighbourhood policing, putting bobbies back on the beat in every corner of the country, and we will introduce new respect orders so that the police can get repeat offenders off our streets.

Kirith Entwistle Portrait Kirith Entwistle
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Antisocial behaviour is one of the most common issues raised my constituents in Bolton North East. Can the Minister assure me and my constituents that her Department will take clear steps to tackle the issue head on?

Diana Johnson Portrait Dame Diana Johnson
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Absolutely. We have been very clear that we see neighbourhood policing as the bedrock of restoring public confidence in policing, and the neighbourhood policing guarantee is a crucial part of that. The police have powers to crack down on the antisocial use of dangerous and deafening off-road bikes, which causes much concern in many of our constituencies, so that they can be seized and destroyed far more swiftly.