PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Anti-social Behaviour: Mediation (8 February 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's statutory guidance entitled Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act: anti-social behaviour, updated in December 2022, what account she has taken of the potential effectiveness of mediation in assessing the use of powers to tackle anti-social behaviour.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

We provided the police, local authorities and other local agencies with a range of flexible tools and powers that they can use to respond quickly and effectively to ASB through the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (the ‘2014 Act’).

The statutory guidance makes clear on pages 27-28 that mediation can be sought as an informal intervention prior to using the powers and tools. It is also referenced throughout the guidance.

Answered by:
Chris Philp (Conservative)
23 February 2023