Knife Crime Prevention Orders

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:41 pm on 4 February 2019.

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Photo of Vicky Foxcroft Vicky Foxcroft Opposition Whip (Commons) 3:41, 4 February 2019

I have a few questions for the Minister that I hope she can answer, especially given that the Home Secretary is not here. How much does she expect the roll-out of knife crime prevention orders to cost? Will there be extra community police officers? How does this fit with the Government’s public health approach? Will there be extra resources available for programmes such as Divert, which I visited at Millwall in my constituency last week and which has proved successful in reducing reoffending by over 20%? Reoffending costs the UK up to £10 billion a year, so should our focus not be on early intervention programmes such as that, rather than gimmicks that risk criminalising our young kids?