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Crime: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to tackle (a) youth violence and (b) knife crime in (i) Essex and (ii) South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
8 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to tackle (a) youth violence and (b) knife crime in (i) Essex and (ii) South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Halving knife crime over the next decade is a key part of the Government’s Safer Streets Mission. Driving down youth-related violence across the UK, including Essex South Basildon and East Thurrock, will play a key role in meeting this ambition.To date, w...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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