Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of crime during the cost of living crisis; and what steps she will take to tackle that crime.

We monitor crime levels on a regular basis, both at a national level and police force area level and this monitoring feeds into our crime reduction efforts.

The Government is committed to reducing crime and is funding a range of evidence-led interventions to prevent crime happening in the first place.

For example, the Safer Streets Fund provides investment into innovative as well as traditional interventions to improve the safety of public places, Violence Reduction Units bring together local partners to tackle the drivers of violence in their area, and ‘Grip’ funding allows the police to carry out targeted and visible patrols in areas where there is greatest risk of serious violence.