Question follow-through · 59050
Begging and Vagrancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle aggressive begging.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 11 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle aggressive begging.
13 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jun 2025
Answer published
Begging is a complex issue, though where it causes a nuisance or distress to communities, local areas need appropriate tools to maintain community safety. The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 already provides the police, local authoritie...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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