Cut crime in half since March 2010, making our streets and communities safer. In the year ending March 2010 there were 9,544,000 offences in England and Wales excluding fraud and by the year ending March 2023 this number had fallen to 4,333,000, showing successive Conservative governments cutting crime.

Oversaw the largest expansion to the prison estate since the Victorian era, delivering 20,000 more prison places to keep offenders behind bars, including 6,000 since 2019 alone. The Conservatives introduced 20,000 new prison places and announced funding up to £4 billion – the biggest expansion since the Victorian era. They were also doubling up cells where safe to do so and sped up the deportation of foreign criminals to free up prison spaces.

Tackled violent offences across England and Wales through the Violence Reduction Units and ‘hotspot policing’, delivering on the Conservatives’ plan to keep our streets safe. Since 2019 more than £160 million was provided to fund VRUs with a further £55 million made available in 2023 - 2024. Areas that rolled out VRUs and intensive police patrols in violence hotspots stopped 3,200 hospital admissions and also supported over 271,000 vulnerable young people in their fourth year of funding alone.