The Safer Streets Fund is intended to cut crime and the harm it causes. Everyone in this country should have the security and confidence that comes from a safe street and a safe home. Since the Fund launched in 2020, we have invested £120 million through four rounds supporting 270 projects across England and Wales.

Decisions on the geographical coverage of London funding bids submitted to the Safer Streets Fund is a matter for the Mayor of London. To date, £3.2 million has been awarded through all rounds of the Safer Streets Fund to local projects across London. This includes just over £1.5 million in funding through the current fourth round for projects targeting neighbourhood crime, violence against women and girls and anti-social behaviour.

We remain committed to protecting communities and keeping our streets safe. We will look to provide further information about potential future rounds of the Safer Streets Fund in due course.

The Safer Streets Fund is intended to cut crime and the harm it causes. Everyone in this country should have the security and confidence that comes from a safe street and a safe home. Since the Fund launched in 2020, we have invested £120 million through four rounds supporting 270 projects across England and Wales.

Decisions on the geographical coverage of London funding bids submitted to the Safer Streets Fund is a matter for the Mayor of London. To date, £3.2 million has been awarded through all rounds of the Safer Streets Fund to local projects across London. This includes just over £1.5 million in funding through the current fourth round for projects targeting neighbourhood crime, violence against women and girls and anti-social behaviour.

We remain committed to protecting communities and keeping our streets safe. We will look to provide further information about potential future rounds of the Safer Streets Fund in due course.

The details of grant awards for the financial years 2019/20 to 2021/22 are published in the Government Grants Register, detailing the recipient and the value awarded.

Roads in Enfield are primarily the responsibility of Enfield Borough Council, plus Transport for London (TfL) for the red routes. Any concerns about their safety should be raised with them in the first instance. Since the onset of the pandemic, Government has provided TfL with over £6billion of emergency funding support.

The Government is committed to tackling and preventing anti-social behaviour (ASB). We provided the police, local authorities, and other local agencies with a range of tools and powers that they can flexibly use to respond quickly and effectively to ASB through the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.

In January of this year, the Home Office updated its statutory guidance, this supports local agencies to make effective use of these powers. In July the Government laid out its plans for tackling crime and ASB in the Beating Crime Plan. This included a commitment to working with local agencies and partners to drive down ASB using the full range of powers and tools in the 2014 Act.

The Government has given policing the biggest funding increase in a decade. Metropolitan Police funding will be up to £3,072.3m in 2021/22, an increase of up to £132.4m on the 2020/21 police funding settlement. Decisions about the allocation of police resources are for Chief Constables and democratically accountable PCCs.

In addition, the Home Office’s Safer Streets Fund has now allocated over £70m to support areas deliver crime prevention measures, such as improved streetlighting and CCTV, which also help to tackle ASB.

Local authorities have the flexibility to use their funding to respond to local needs. The Government is providing around £1.6 billion additional grant funding within the Local Government Central Grant (LGDEL) each year. This will allow councils to increase their spending on the vital public services. It includes an additional £200 million investment to expand the Supporting Families programme, which helps to tackle ASB.

The Government has given policing the biggest funding increase in a decade and funding for the Metropolitan Police will be up to £3,072.3m in 2021/22, an increase of up to £132.4m on the 2020/21 police funding settlement.

Tackling modern slavery is a key priority for this Government and we have invested £15 million since October 2016, including £1.4m this year (2021/22) to strengthen the police response through the police Modern Slavery and Organised Immigration Crime Programme.

This funding has enabled us to support the police to develop bespoke capabilities to improve forces’ understanding of modern slavery and drive forward work to increase modern slavery prosecutions, as well as building new capability for forces to respond to organised immigration crime. Through the lifetime of the Programme, we have seen an increase in the number of live police operations from 188 police operations in December 2016 to over 3,869 in October 2021.

As part of the New Plan for Immigration, the Home Office announced the creation of a Modern Slavery Prevention Fund, which closed for bids, including from local authorities and NGOs, on 8 November 2021. Over the next year, the Home Office intends to use that fund to support organisations to deliver targeted prevention interventions.

The Government is also currently reviewing its Modern Slavery Strategy and will consider whether there are further opportunities to strengthen the law enforcement response to modern slavery, building on the considerable progress we have made to date.

Domestic abuse is an abhorrent crime and the Government continues to take action tackle it. Our Domestic Abuse Act became law this April. This is a truly game changing piece of legislation which will transform our response to victims in every region in England and Wales and ensure perpetrators are brought to justice.

Early in the new year, we will publish a strategy dedicated to tackling domestic abuse. It will be informed by the 180,000 responses we received to our Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Call for Evidence. The strategy will seek to transform the whole of society’s response to domestic abuse in order to prevent offending, support victims and pursue perpetrators, as well as to strengthen the systems in place needed to deliver these goals.

Producing a strategy dedicated to tackling domestic abuse is in recognition of its pervasiveness and the devasting harm it is having on millions of lives.

The strategy will seek to build on the spotlight the pandemic has shone on domestic abuse, putting it front and centre of the public’s minds, in order to make tackling it everyone’s business.

Last year we announced an additional £2 million in funding for domestic abuse organisations to ensure that vital helplines and online services continue to be easily accessible throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This year (2021-22) we will be investing £25m towards preventing and combatting perpetrators.

We are also investing £5 million for a ‘Safety of Women at Night’ fund, in addition to the £25 million Safer Streets fund that focuses on the prevention of violence against women and girls in public spaces at night, including in the night-time economy. In addition to this, Metropolitan Police funding will be up to £3,072.3m in 2021/22, an increase of up to £132.4m on the 2020/21 police funding settlement.

We will continue to fund organisations providing support to victims of these heinous crimes, including those from minoritized backgrounds, children and those requiring bespoke support for a range of abilities. Allocation of funding to specific organisations for 2022-23 has not yet been determined.

The 2020 Summer Economic Update announced the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Demonstrator project, launched in 2020, which has awarded £61 million to 18 local authorities to test innovative approaches to retrofitting at scale, covering over 2,100 social homes in England and Scotland.

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham was awarded £9.6 million to retrofit an estimated 230 homes in London, delivering as part of a consortium, of which the London Borough of Enfield is a member. The project looks to improve the energy performance of homes by installing external wall insultation, having oil and gas heating in homes replaced with air-source heat pumps and installing solar panels.

In 2020/2021 we are providing £437 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. This marks a £69 million increase in funding from the previous year. Funding given to local authorities seeks to address local homelessness and rough sleeping variation and is allocated according to demand in their areas.

Every local authority in England works directly with a specialist homelessness adviser from MHCLG, who engage with councils on an ongoing basis in order to help in ensuring that they are provided with the necessary resources and information to address homelessness in their locality.

Further to their work on homelessness, Enfield was identified as an area that would benefit from additional support around rough sleeping and was accordingly assigned a specialist rough sleeping adviser. This adviser works closely with the local authority in order to support and develop their work to tackle rough sleeping in their area and deliver their MHCLG funded interventions.

In terms of specific funding streams allocated to Enfield Council’s homelessness services provision, they have received:

• £7,163,422 in Flexible Homelessness Support Grant in 2019/20 and the same amount for 2020/21. This funding is allocated based on a formula that reflects relative homeless pressures.
• £398,287 in New Burdens fund in 2019/20, to assist with the implementation of the Homelessness Reduction Act. They have now been allocated £1,184,670 in Homelessness Reduction Grant funding for 2020/21, which provides an uplift on the new burdens funding allocated to implement the Homelessness Reduction Act. It will enable local authorities to do more to prevent and relieve homelessness in their areas. This is an increase of £786,383 in relation to their previous year’s New Burdens allocation, making them the borough with the 6th largest uplift nationally.
• £450,000 allocated in PRS Access Scheme funding in 2019/20, for a project designed to increase access and sustainment of tenancies in the private rented sector for those who are, or are at risk of becoming, homeless.
• £699,000 in the form of their Rough Sleeping Initiative grant for 2020/21, which is an increase of £458,629 in comparison to the £20,371 in Rapid Rehousing Pathway funding and £220,000 Rough Sleeping Initiative funding they received in 2019/20, which were combined for this year’s Rough Sleeping Initiative grant.