Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of gang-related crime in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last three years.

Gang-related crime can include a wide variety of offences, such as serious violence offences and county lines drug crime, and there is no one metric which encompasses them all.

However, tackling these crimes is a priority for this Government. For example, the Government has made £130m available this financial year (22/23) to tackle serious violence, including murder and knife crime. In the West Midlands this includes £5.87m towards their Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), which delivers a range of interventions with those at risk of involvement in violence, and £3.02m towards their ‘Grip’ police enforcement programme, which delivers hotspot patrols in areas of risk.

In addition, to tackle county lines crime we are investing up to £145m over the next three years through the Drugs Strategy.