questionText: 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.
answerText: The Government has introduced targeted measures in the Crime and Policing Bill to replace the powers in the outdated Vagrancy Act 1824 to ensure police have the powers they need to keep communities safe, including a new criminal offence of facilitating be...
heading: Begging and Vagrancy