Minister of State for Crime Prevention
Organisations:
Home Office
Responsibilities
The minister is responsible for:
- drugs
- drugs strategy
- forensic science
- volume, acquisitive and business crime (including burglary, motor vehicle crime, retail crime, cash vehicles in transit, wildlife/rural crime, metal theft)
- crime statistics
- crime strategy
- designing out crime
- antisocial behaviour
- public health
- alcohol (including Licensing Act and powers of police and local authorities) and alcohol strategy
- violent crime, violent offender orders
- homelessness
- community activism
- youth crime and youth violence
- domestic violence, including forced marriage, honour-based killing and FGM
- sexual violence, sex offenders, child sex offenders review, prostitution, lap dancing
- violence against women and girls, sexualisation of young people, women’s safety and fear of crime
- missing persons
- hate crime
- child sexual exploitation, including Sexual Violence against Children and Vulnerable People national group
- animals in science regulation
- British Transport Police reform
- firearms
Previous holders of this role
-
The Rt Hon Lynne Featherstone
2014 to 2015
-
The Rt Hon Norman Baker
2013 to 2014
-
Jeremy Browne
2012 to 2013