Question follow-through · 91066

Begging and Vagrancy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the prevalence of organised begging networks operating in England.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 13 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 17 Nov 2025
Answer: 26 Nov 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

13 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the prevalence of organised begging networks operating in England.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Government has introduced targeted measures in the Crime and Policing Bill to replace the powers in the outdated Vagrancy Act 1824 to ensure police have the powers they need to keep communities safe, including a new criminal offence of facilitating be...

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