Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the new Respect Orders introduced in the Crime and Policing Act 2026 on anti-social noise in the vicinity of war memorials.

Respect Orders provide the police and other relevant agencies with a stronger tool to tackle persistent anti-social behaviour. Courts will be able to impose prohibitions or positive requirements on adults who have engaged in, or threatened to engage in, anti-social behaviour, where necessary to prevent further such behaviour. This could include persistent anti-social noise where the statutory tests are met, including in the vicinity of war memorials.

Respect Orders will be available to relevant agencies on 26 October. The Government is developing a monitoring and evaluation approach with analysts and delivery partners to assess how Respect Orders are used and their impact on victims and communities. This will draw on operational data and wider measures of implementation and effectiveness to inform future policy.

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 also provides specific protections for specified war memorials and other significant memorials, including a new offence of climbing on them.