Question follow-through · 100020

Serious Violence Reduction Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the evaluation of the serious violence reduction order pilot.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
18 Dec 2025
Answer
5 Jan 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the evaluation of the serious violence reduction order pilot.

  2. 18 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Jan 2026

    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 pilot has been independently evaluated...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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