FOI request (FOIR-756925376)

Violence Reduction Unit/Partnership

Requested Tue 14 October 2025
Responded Thu 16 October 2025

If there is no Violence Reduction Unit/Partnership in your borough, you do not need to answer each of these questions.

1. Can you tell me how much government funding the Violence Reduction Unit / Partnership in your borough has received in each year since it was established?

2. How much of the above funding in each year has been spent on salaries? Please provide a figure.

3. Please provide a breakdown of the salaries of all executive staff the Violence Reduction Unit/Partnership, as well as the figures for each year since it was established.

4. In each of those years, how much money has been given to external organisations and charities working with knife crime in London?

5. Please provide the list of organisations and charities to which money has been given along with figures for each year since the VRU was established.

6. Has your borough requested a Pre-emptive Critical Incident Fund? If so, was it received and how much was it for? Please break down how it was spent.

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Response

Hastings Borough Council holds no information in respect of this request. There is no Vehicle Reduction Unit in Hastings. It is part of the Sussex VRU/VRP.