To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps her Department is taking to encourage neighbourhood watch schemes in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) the UK.

The Home Office encourages community-based efforts to prevent crime and has provided funding to the national Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network (NHWN) to help support and promote local schemes in 2013-14.

Police and Crime Commissioners also play a key role in crime prevention, and many are working closely with local Neighbourhood Watch schemes.