PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Anti-social Behaviour: Injunctions (14 April 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of injunctions that have been issued for anti-social behaviour in (a) England and (b) Stockport during (i) 2015 and (ii) 2020; and whether there has been a decrease in the number of those injunctions during the covid-19 outbreak.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provides flexible powers to authorities in local areas. As the powers are local in nature, the Home Office does not centrally collate data on the use of powers under the 2014 Act.

Data on injunctions that have been issued for incidents relating to anti-social behaviour is not collated centrally or published.

The Home Office does not collate data on the use of the Community Trigger mechanism. The 2014 Act includes a statutory duty for relevant bodies in a local government area to publish, at least annually, the number of applications for Community Trigger reviews received, the number of times the threshold for review was not met, the number of reviews carried out, and the number of the reviews that resulted in recommendations being made.

The Home Office updated statutory guidance in January 2021 to support local authorities to make effective use of the powers in the 2014 Act and provide enhanced clarity on the Community Trigger process. The 2014 Act and the statutory guidance also supports agencies determine whether restorative approaches are appropriate, depending on the specific behaviour.

Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
22 April 2021