Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many gang injunctions have been granted in each of the last three years.

The Home Office does not collect data on the number of gang injunctions granted. Gang injunctions are used by local areas to prevent gang-related violence and records are held locally.

The "Review of the operation of injunctions to prevent gang-related violence", published in January 2014, included information from 25 of the 33 Ending Gang and Youth Violence areas; showing that between January 2011 and January 2014, 108 gang injunctions had been put in place. Of these, two were taken out against young people under 18s. This review is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/278786/ReviewInjunctionsGangRelatedViolence.pdf

Note - the figures in the review were subsequently updated after an error was found in the data due to the number of gang injunctions reported by one area being revised from 2 to 22.