- Reference: 2023/3867
- Question by: Unmesh Desai
- Meeting date: 12 October 2023
Investment in the Vehicle Reduction Unit (VRU) is within a context of declining spend by councils on youth services. Between 2010-11 and 2021-21 following ten years of cuts to local authority finances, outer London experienced a fall in youth services funding of 68% while spending in inner London fell by 72%. Would Government properly funding youth services allow the work of the VRU to go further?