United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 91066
Begging and Vagrancy
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13 November 2025
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26 November 2025 · Answer
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26 November 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the prevalence of organised begging networks operating in England.
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13 November 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the prevalence of organised begging networks operating in England.
Source: Commons
26 November 2025
Answer
The Government has introduced targeted measures in the Crime and Policing Bill to replace the powers in the outdated Vagrancy Act 1824 to ensure police have the powers they need to keep communities safe, including a new criminal offence of facilitating be...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-11-13/91066
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1852553
- uk · wq-1852553 · source updated 26 November 2025