Crimes of Violence

This government is committed to halving knife crime within a decade, and in April 2026 published a Plan to Halve Knife Crime. This included Home Office investment of over £130m in knife crime programmes including sustained funding of over £66 million for Serious Violence Reduction Programmes including Violence reduction units, over £26 million for the Knife Crime Concentration Fund to support those forces wors affected by knife crime and over £34 million for County Lines. We are not just taking decisive action but we are seeing decisive results with knife crime having fallen 10% since the start of this parliament. At the same time, we have set out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality, consistency and effectiveness of policing, spanning both the national and local tiers, through the Police Reform White Paper. Part of this is embedding hotspot activity into mainstream policing, where it forms a central component of the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee (NPG), alongside the establishment of a National Police Service to strengthen the response to terrorism and serious organised crime, by bringing together nationally facing functions delivered through the National Crime Agency, Counter Terrorism Policing and Regional Organised Crime Units. Underpinning all of this is our commitment to provide policing with the resources they need. This includes our commitment to deliver 13,000 additional neighbourhood policing personnel and an increase of up to £834 million of funding for police forces compared to the 2025-26. This brings the total police funding settlement to up to £18.4 billion, equivalent to a 4.7% cash increase and 2.7% real terms increase in funding. Alongside these measures, the Government is strengthening support for victims as the Ministry of Justice has committed to a 2% year-on-year uplift in victims funding across this Spending Review period, as part of a £550 million investment in victim services - the largest to date.