Westminster Hall
10 November 2026
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Westminster Hall House of Commons
Follow its sittings00:09 - 00:15
Speaker 1
Order. Ayoub Khan to move the motion.
00:15 - 01:02
Speaker 6
I beg to move that this House has considered the matter of anti-social behaviour. Can I first of all thank you Ms Butler, it's a pleasure to serve under your chair ship, and I would like to refer members to my Register of Interests. Can I start by thanking colleagues from across the House who helped to make this debate possible, especially the member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark who also chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-social Behaviour. I would like to also thank colleagues from Resolve who work with victims, housing providers, councils and police to help address this very issue. Can I also thank students which have attended this debate, students from Omnes, French students, to see how democracy works.
01:02 - 01:44
Speaker 4
Can I say that I was driven to secure this debate primarily because of the people I represent, residents of Birmingham, Perry Barr, who are all proud to call our area home. For all its charms, it also suffers from issues that successive governments have failed to address. Among the worst of those issues is anti-social behaviour, things like street drinking, begging, threatening behaviour, fly-tipping, criminal damage, noise nuisance, vandalism. For many, this is part of everyday life. Only a small minority of people commit these acts, but everyone feels their effects.
01:44 - 02:07
Speaker 3
And the facts back that up. Resolve estimates that more than 5 million incidents of anti-social behaviour occur in this country every year. Even worse, this is only an estimate, because the overwhelming majority of people who experience don't even report it. According to the Home Office's own statistics, up to 93% of incidents go unreported. That is because past
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