Question follow-through · 31300
Crime Prevention: Surrey
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of dispersal orders to reduce (a) theft and (b) anti-social behaviour in market towns in Surrey.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 28 Feb 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of dispersal orders to reduce (a) theft and (b) anti-social behaviour in market towns in Surrey.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Feb 2025
Answer published
Engagement with policing partners suggests that police consider dispersal orders straightforward to use and effective in the short-term.Through the Crime and Policing Bill, we will be legislating to extend dispersal orders from 48 to 72 hours, making them...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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