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To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what funding her Department provides to support grassroots sports programmes aimed at diverting young people away from antisocial behaviour and gang involvement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what funding her Department provides to support grassroots sports programmes aimed at diverting young people away from antisocial behaviour and gang involvement.
The Department works closely with Sport England to target grassroots investment toward high-need areas, which includes areas experiencing elevated youth violence. Through the Community Sports Facilities Programme, which is investing £400 million of funding through to 2030, we are expanding peak evening and weekend capacity by funding floodlights and durable all-weather pitches that offer up to 80 hours of weekly use.
In addition, Sport England have partnered with StreetGames to produce a Theory of Change document focused on Sport, Youth Offending and Serious Youth Violence. The document sets out clearly how sport can reduce risk factors linked to youth offending while strengthening protective factors that keep young people safe. That theory underpinned the Ministry of Justice’s £5m Youth Justice Sport Fund, which now informs more than a dozen place-based partnerships with Active Partnerships, Police and Crime Commissioners and Violence Reduction Units.
The Department also funds the Million Hours Fund, in partnership with The National Lottery Community Fund, which provides youth organisations with funding to deliver additional hours of positive activities for young people in areas with higher levels of anti-social behaviour. The latest phase of the Fund, which runs until March 2027, awarded £18 million to 292 organisations, including grassroot sports programmes.
DCMS is also funding the Young Futures Hubs and Transformation Programme to improve local youth services and establish a network of 50 Young Futures Hubs by March 2029. Each Young Futures Hub will meet three outcomes of increasing opportunities, improving mental health and wellbeing, and reducing crime.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of rural crime prevention measures in reducing thefts of agricultural machinery, livestock and fuel in rural communities; and what further support her Department plans to provide to police forces to tackle rural...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of rural crime prevention measures in reducing thefts of agricultural machinery, livestock and fuel in rural communities; and what further support her Department plans to provide to police forces to tackle rural...
Rural crime can have a devastating impact on rural communities and the agricultural sector. Rural crime is not recorded as a distinct category within police recorded crime, so it is not possible to produce a single, centrally verified assessment of its scale. However, NFU Mutual’s latest Rural Crime Report estimates that the overall cost of rural crime fell by 6% in 2025.
The Government acknowledges there is more to do, that’s why we are implementing the Equipment Theft Act to make agricultural equipment harder to steal and easier to recover, including new requirements for forensic marking and registration of All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) and agricultural GPS units.
We recognise that organised criminal groups are involved in rural offences, including the theft of agricultural machinery, livestock and fuel. The Home Office is therefore providing over £800,000 in 2026/27 for the National Rural Crime Unit and the National Wildlife Crime Unit. These specialist capabilities provide operational support, intelligence, analysis and coordination to police forces across the UK, helping them to identify, disrupt and pursue offenders operating across force boundaries. The National Rural Crime Unit has helped recover £32 million worth of stolen machinery, vehicles and equipment since it was established.
The Home Office worked closely with DEFRA and the National Police Chiefs’ Council to publish the 2025-2028 Rural and Wildlife Crime Strategy, which further strengthens the policing response by setting national operational and organisational priorities and supporting intelligence-led action against organised criminality.
Visibility and responsiveness are critical to building trust in rural communities, which is why our Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee is strengthening local policing presence in all areas, including rural areas. By 31 March 2026, forces had delivered 3,814 additional neighbourhood policing personnel, and our target remains 13,000 by the end of the parliament. In addition, through the guarantee every neighbourhood, rural or urban, has named and contactable officers dedicated to tackling local crime and anti-social behaviour, with a response to non-urgent enquiries within 72 hours. These measures, alongside strengthened specialist national capability, will support forces to prevent and investigate rural crime and protect rural communities.
To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with police forces and rural organisations to ensure that the powers introduced under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 are being used effectively to deter offenders of hare coursing and secure prosecutions.
To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with police forces and rural organisations to ensure that the powers introduced under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 are being used effectively to deter offenders of hare coursing and secure prosecutions.
Hare coursing remains a national wildlife crime priority and is one of the offences for which police forces most frequently seek support from the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU). Defra is providing £530,000 to the NWCU in 2026/27, strengthening its intelligence, data analysis and financial investigation capabilities to help disrupt criminal networks, identify illicit profits, and bring offenders to justice.
New sentencing guidelines for hare coursing came into force on 1 June 2026. These should help ensure the courts fully recognise the significant harm and intimidation this serious crime poses to wildlife, farmers, and others across rural areas.
This Government cannot confirm offending levels as hare coursing is not a ‘notifiable crime’. Hare coursing can also be ‘hidden’ under notifiable offences such as criminal damage if it has taken place as part of the same incident.
Lords motion to take note of the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions (the Macolin Convention). Agreed to on question.
Lords motion to take note of the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions (the Macolin Convention). Agreed to on question.
My Lords, I am delighted, as chair of the International Agreements Committee, to lead this debate on the committee’s report on the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions, better known as the Macolin convention. People in the UK are passionate about sport and the integrity of...
My Lords, I am delighted, as chair of the International Agreements Committee, to lead this debate on the committee’s report on the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions, better known as the Macolin convention. People in the UK are passionate about sport and the integrity of...
My Lords, I have not been well recently and the Chair has very kindly agreed that I might sit to make my address; I hope that that is acceptable.
I congratulate the chair of our International Agreements Committee on his excellent introduction, which covered so many of the points that we...
My Lords, I have not been well recently and the Chair has very kindly agreed that I might sit to make my address; I hope that that is acceptable.
I congratulate the chair of our International Agreements Committee on his excellent introduction, which covered so many of the points that we...
My Lords, having heard from the noble Lord, Lord Johnson, who introduced this while, unusually, placed on my left—but Grand Committee has certain advantages from these changes—and from the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, with his forensic detail, I will concentrate on why the subject of sport is important and why...
My Lords, having heard from the noble Lord, Lord Johnson, who introduced this while, unusually, placed on my left—but Grand Committee has certain advantages from these changes—and from the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, with his forensic detail, I will concentrate on why the subject of sport is important and why...
My Lords, I very much welcome the debate today and declare my interests: I chair Sport Wales and, with that, I sit on UK Sport; I am a member of the Government’s Soft Power Council, which looks at sport; and, in 2017, I authored the report, Duty of Care in...
My Lords, I very much welcome the debate today and declare my interests: I chair Sport Wales and, with that, I sit on UK Sport; I am a member of the Government’s Soft Power Council, which looks at sport; and, in 2017, I authored the report, Duty of Care in...
My Lords, I welcome the report of the International Agreements Committee, and I very much support ratification of the Macolin convention. I will make a few brief general remarks then turn to the reservation, on which I have some specific questions.
The noble Lord, Lord Johnson, and indeed the committee, asked...
My Lords, I welcome the report of the International Agreements Committee, and I very much support ratification of the Macolin convention. I will make a few brief general remarks then turn to the reservation, on which I have some specific questions.
The noble Lord, Lord Johnson, and indeed the committee, asked...
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Johnson and all members of the committee on the work that they have done on this important issue. The contributions to this debate have fallen into two broad categories: detailed examination of the convention, mainly from the lawyers; and the vital importance...
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Johnson and all members of the committee on the work that they have done on this important issue. The contributions to this debate have fallen into two broad categories: detailed examination of the convention, mainly from the lawyers; and the vital importance...
My Lords, this debate on the ratification by the UK of the Council of Europe’s Macolin convention—so excellently introduced by the chair of the International Agreements Committee, the noble Lord, Lord Johnson—is of wider significance than the detailed subject matter covered by the convention, important though that is.
This debate followed...
My Lords, this debate on the ratification by the UK of the Council of Europe’s Macolin convention—so excellently introduced by the chair of the International Agreements Committee, the noble Lord, Lord Johnson—is of wider significance than the detailed subject matter covered by the convention, important though that is.
This debate followed...
My Lords, I start by thanking the committee for the important work that it has done in going through the fine details of this in the inquiry that it held. I also want to commend the Government
for actually getting on with ratification. I am very conscious that a lot...
My Lords, I start by thanking the committee for the important work that it has done in going through the fine details of this in the inquiry that it held. I also want to commend the Government
for actually getting on with ratification. I am very conscious that a lot...
My Lords, like the noble Baroness, I declare my interest: I am a full member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. I am not a member of the committee that has been dealing with these matters, although I may have voted at some stage on associated matters...
My Lords, like the noble Baroness, I declare my interest: I am a full member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. I am not a member of the committee that has been dealing with these matters, although I may have voted at some stage on associated matters...
Not true.
Not true.
It is absolutely the truth, and I am going to quote, because I committed this to memory. The Secretary-General, on behalf of the Committee of Ministers, has said on more than one occasion—and maybe the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, was not there at each one—something straightforward: he said that membership...
It is absolutely the truth, and I am going to quote, because I committed this to memory. The Secretary-General, on behalf of the Committee of Ministers, has said on more than one occasion—and maybe the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, was not there at each one—something straightforward: he said that membership...
My Lords, I begin by congratulating the Minister, and welcoming her to her place. I was sadly not able to be there on Friday when she made her maiden speech in your Lordships’ House, but I have read it with pleasure and welcome her warmly to her position in DCMS.
As...
My Lords, I begin by congratulating the Minister, and welcoming her to her place. I was sadly not able to be there on Friday when she made her maiden speech in your Lordships’ House, but I have read it with pleasure and welcome her warmly to her position in DCMS.
As...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Johnson of Lainston, for securing this debate, and I thank all noble Lords who have taken part for their valuable contributions. I am grateful to the International Agreements Committee for its excellent work and its report, published on Friday 11 September, on...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Johnson of Lainston, for securing this debate, and I thank all noble Lords who have taken part for their valuable contributions. I am grateful to the International Agreements Committee for its excellent work and its report, published on Friday 11 September, on...
My Lords, I will continue.
The convention is deliberately technology neutral and this, I hope, addresses a point that several noble Lords have very correctly raised. It allows countries to respond to emerging threats without requiring wholesale changes to the treaty itself. The UK will continue to engage constructively through the...
My Lords, I will continue.
The convention is deliberately technology neutral and this, I hope, addresses a point that several noble Lords have very correctly raised. It allows countries to respond to emerging threats without requiring wholesale changes to the treaty itself. The UK will continue to engage constructively through the...
My Lords, I thank noble Lords for a first-class debate. I feel, as I always do when I am in my own committee, deeply humbled by the incredible level of expertise around me, supplemented so well by Olympians and other enthusiasts and knowledgeable individuals contributing to such an important issue....
My Lords, I thank noble Lords for a first-class debate. I feel, as I always do when I am in my own committee, deeply humbled by the incredible level of expertise around me, supplemented so well by Olympians and other enthusiasts and knowledgeable individuals contributing to such an important issue....
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the resources and operational support available to police forces to tackle the dangerous or anti-social use of e-bikes in town centres.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the resources and operational support available to police forces to tackle the dangerous or anti-social use of e-bikes in town centres.