Question follow-through · 57961

Serious Violence Reduction Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to (a) extend beyond the current trial areas and (b) make permanent the pilot of Serious Violence Reduction Orders.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 5 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 9 Jun 2025
Answer: 13 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

5 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to (a) extend beyond the current trial areas and (b) make permanent the pilot of Serious Violence Reduction Orders.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jun 2025
Answer published
Serious Violence Reduction Orders (SVROs) were piloted for two years throughout Merseyside, Sussex, Thames Valley and West Midlands police force areas. The pilot took place between 19 April 2023 and 18 April 2025.The final independent evaluation of the pi...

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