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1081672

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they are giving to the introduction of emergency measures in England and Wales to deal with knife crime.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
	uin	HL14205
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is already taking a wide range of urgent measures to tack-le knife crime. In April 2018, the Government published the Serious Violence Strategy that set out action being taken to address serious violence and in particular the recent increases in knife crime, gun crime and homicide. This set out 61 commitments that the Government will be is taking forward to tackle violent crime. This includes new legislation in the Offensive Weapons Bill, currently in the House of Lords, strengthening police capability to act against violent crime, and a strong focus on prevention and early intervention to stop more working with young people to encourage them to take up positive activities rather than getting involved in crime, including serious violence. The Bill is also introducing new Knife Crime Prevention Orders.</p><p><br>Alongside the legislative measures in the Bill we are taking forward a number of other actions including a national knife crime media campaign - #knifefree - supporting intervention work in Hospital A&amp;E departments by expanding our support to Redthread to introduce its youth violence intervention work to include in hospitals in Birmingham and Nottingham, as well as in London, to work with young people admitted with knife wounds. In May 2018, we launched a new round of the anti-knife crime Community Fund as part of the Government’s commitment to early intervention and prevention to tackle serious violence. We announced the successful 68 projects in bids on 2 August 2018 with total who are receiving funding of £1.5 million in total, to support grass roots projects focused on prevention and early intervention.</p><p><br>In addition, the Government continues to encourage police forces to undertake a series of coordinated national weeks of action to tackle knife crime under Operation Sceptre. The operation includes targeted stop and searches, weapon sweeps of hotspot areas, test purchases of knives from retailers, and educational events. The week commencing 17 September 2018 marked the most recent week of action under Operation Sceptre, and it is expected that the next phase will take place from 11-17 March.</p><p><br>Last October the Home Secretary announced further measures to address violent crime including a consultation on new legal duty to underpin a ‘public health’ approach to tackling serious violence, a new £200 million youth endowment fund and an Independent review of drug misuse.</p><p><br>We have made significant progress in delivering on our key commitments including:</p><p><br>• a new £22m Early Intervention Youth Fund to support communities for early intervention and prevention with young people;<br>• a new £3.6m National County Lines Co-ordination Centre to tackle violent and exploitative criminal activity associated with county lines. The NCLCC has co-ordinated two separate weeks of intensive <br>• law enforcement action which has led to more than 1,000 arrests, over 1300 individuals safeguarded, and significant seizures of weapons and drugs;</p><p><br>• the Offensive Weapons Bill, currently in the House of Lords, is also introducing new Knife Crime Prevention Orders;<br>• £1.4m to support a new national police capability to tackle gang related activity on social media which will be fully operational later this year;<br>• established a cross party, cross sector, Serious Violence Taskforce which is chaired by the Home Secretary to oversee and drive this critical programme of work</p><p><br>• We have also agreed a set of commitments with major retailers to prevent the underage sales of knives more generally in their stores and online. The agreement also covers staff training and displays and packag-ing. Tesco, eBay UK, Lidl UK, Amazon UK, Wilko, Argos, Asda, Pound-land, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, John Lewis and Waitrose have all signed up to the principles. They have since been joined by Boots, the Co-op, B&amp;Q, Aldi, TKMaxx and Debenhams. In addition, as part of the Serious Violence Strategy we will support Trading Standards if they decide to prosecute a case in court through a specific prosecution fund</p><p>In addition, the following measures are being introduced:</p><p><br>• a new £200 million youth endowment fund. This will be delivered over 10 years and will support interventions with children and young peo-ple at risk of involvement in crime and violence. It will focus on those most at risk, such as those displaying signs such as truancy, aggression and involvement in anti-social behaviour; funding interventions to steer children and young people away from becoming serious offenders. In December 2018, we launched the bidding process to choose an organisation or consortium that will run and administer the fund. The deadline for submissions was 23 January and we are now assessing the bids received; and,<br>• an Independent review of drug misuse, which is being led by Dame Carol Black. This will ensure law enforcement agencies and policy are targeting and preventing the drug-related causes of violent crime effectively. Drugs have been identified as a major driver of serious violence and this review will look at recreational drug use, as well as considering use by the small number of users who cause the most harm to themselves and their communities.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 18/03/2019 17:41:33 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

1082432

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of rising levels of knife crime and of the Chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioner's claim that reductions in police numbers and cuts to youth services have created "a toxic mix".
	tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
	uin	HL14269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s Serious Violence Strategy, published in April 2018, includes our analysis of the factors driving increases in serious violence. This highlighted a range of possible factors and that a major factor was changes in the drugs market.</p><p>The Government is also clear that prevention and early intervention, alongside tough enforcement, are critical to achieving sustainable reductions in knife crime and serious violence.</p><p>This is why the Government is providing the police with new powers through the Offensive Weapons Bill, promoting a major media campaign #knife free, we are investing £22 million into the prevention of serious violence through the Early Intervention Youth Fund, in addition to the £200 million Youth Endowment Fund which will provide support over the next 10 years for those young people most at risk of serious violence. We will also be shortly consulting on a new statutory duty to underpin the multi-agency approach to tackling violence and we have an established an independent review of drug misuse.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/03/2019 17:42:05 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

1089525

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to treat knife crime as a public health issue; and if such steps are being taken, what funding they have made available to treat that issue as a public health priority.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL14606
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2019 answer text <p>Tackling serious violence including knife crime is a top priority for the Government and it is clear we must continue to step up the response to stop this violence. The Serious Violence Strategy, published in April 2018 sets out the Government’s approach, which depends also on a multi-agency approach across several sectors and stresses the importance of early intervention to tackle the root causes.</p><p>It also sets out a significant programme of work including the following:</p><p>• Early Intervention Youth Fund of £22 million<br>• £1.5 million for the anti-knife crime Community Fund<br>• £3.6 million we have provided for the establishment of the new <br> National County Lines Coordination Centre<br>• £1.4 million to support a new national police capability to tackle gang <br> related activity on social media <br>• Support to the #knifefree national knife crime media campaign<br>• The Offensive Weapons Bill currently passing through Parliament</p><p>In addition, we are supporting police forces to tackle knife crime under Operation Sceptre</p><p>On 2 October 2018 the Home Secretary also announced that the Government will: deliver a new £200 million youth endowment fund over 10 years and will support interventions with children and young people at risk of involvement in crime and violence; conduct an independent review of drug misuse, to be conducted by Dame Carole Black, which will ensure law enforcement agencies and policy are targeting and preventing the drug-related causes of violent crime effectively; and consult on a new legal duty to support a multi-agency or ‘public health’ approach to preventing and tackling serious violence.</p><p>The consultation will explore different options to make multi-agency working more effective than at present and will seek to identify best practice. The consultation will be launched shortly</p><p>Further, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced on 13 March that an additional £100 million funding in 19/20 will help in the police’s immediate response to the rise in serious knife crime, enabling priority forces to immediately begin planning to put in place the additional capacity they need. The funding will also be invested in Violence Reduction Units, bringing together a range of agencies including health, education, social services and others, to develop a multi-agency approach in preventing knife crime altogether.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 29/03/2019 13:32:52 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1092459

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they are offering to communities outside London, including (1) Inverclyde, (2) Rochdale, (3) Manchester, (4) Boston, and (5) Leicester, to tackle knife-related crime.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
	uin	HL14714
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>On 9 April 2018, the Government published a new Serious Violence Strategy to take action to address serious violence and in particular the recent increases in knife crime, gun crime and homicide. The Serious Violence Strategy set out the Government’s response to serious violence and it outlines an ambitious programme involving 61 commitments and actions. Since launching the Strategy in April last year, we have made significant progress in delivering on our key commitments including:</p><p><br>• The Early Intervention Youth Fund of £22m, which is already sup-porting 29 projects in England and Wales<br>• Provision of £3.6m for a new National County Lines Co-ordination Centre. The centre was established to tackle violent and exploitative criminal activity associated with county lines and became fully operational in September 2018;<br>• The National County Lines Coordination Centre has co-ordinated two separate weeks of intensive law enforcement action resulting in more than 1000 arrests, over 1300 individuals engaged for safeguarding, and significant seizures of weapons and drugs; <br>• An anti-knife crime Community Fund which provided £1.5 million in 2018/19 to support 68 projects;<br>• The Offensive Weapons Bill to strengthen legislation on firearms, knives and corrosive substances; and<br>• A national knife crime media campaign - #knifefree - to raise awareness of the consequences of knife crime.</p><p><br>On 2 October 2018 the Home Secretary announced further measures to address violent crime:</p><p>• a consultation on new legal duty to underpin a ‘public health’ ap-proach to tackling serious violence this would mean police officers, education partners, local authority and health care professionals will have a new legal duty to take action and prevent violent crime. <br>a new £200 million youth endowment fund- this will be delivered over 10 years and will support interventions with children and young people at risk of involvement in crime and violence. It will focus on those most at risk, such as those displaying signs such as truancy, aggression and involvement in anti-social behaviour; funding interventions to steer children and young people away from becoming serious offenders; and<br>• an Independent Review of Drug Misuse. On 8 February, we appointed Dame Carol Black to lead a major review that will look into the ways in which drugs are fuelling serious violence.</p><p>The approach establishes a new balance between prevention and the rigorous law enforcement activity. It will shift our approach towards steering young people away from crime in the first place and put in place measures to tackle the root causes. We believe that the approach set out in the Strategy, with a greater emphasis on early intervention, will address violent crime and help young people to develop the skills and resilience to live happy and productive lives away from violence but we cannot deliver this alone</p><p>On 13 March the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the Spring Statement that there will be £100 million additional funding in 2019/20 to tackle serious violence, including £80m of new funding from the Treasury. This will allow police to swiftly crack-down on knife crime on the areas of the country and also allow investment in Violence Reduction Units.</p><p>Inverclyde is in Scotland and is therefore covered by the Scottish Government. Through the Early Intervention Youth Fund and the anti-knife crime Community Fund, we have invested in projects in Greater Manchester (including Rochdale) and Leicester. All forces, including Greater Manchester Police, Leicestershire Police and Lincolnshire Police (including Boston) participated earlier this month in Operation Sceptre, the national week of enforcement action against knife crime.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 03/04/2019 16:31:53 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

1124051

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the level of knife crime offences in England and Wales in 2018.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington
	uin	HL15433
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government is very concerned about increases in knife crime and its impact on victims, families and communities. The latest statistics published by the Office for National Statistics on 25 April for the year ending December 2018 show an increase of 6 per cent in police recorded knife crime.</p><p>The action we are taking to tackle knife crime is set out in our Serious Vio-lence Strategy and includes new legislation in the Offensive Weapons Bill to introduce Knife Crime Prevention Orders, to make it an offence to possess certain offensive weapons in private, and stopping knives being sent to residential addresses after they are bought online unless the seller has arrangements with a delivery company to verify age.</p><p>We are also raising awareness among young people of the dangers of carrying a knife through our national media campaign - #knifefree – and supporting early intervention through the £22 million Early Intervention Youth Fund, which is already supporting 29 local projects, and we have also introduced the £200 million Youth Endowment Fund, which will be delivered over the next 10 years to support interventions with children and young people at risk of involvement in crime and violence, focusing on those most at risk. The charity Impetus, working in partnership with the Early Intervention Foundation and Social Investment Business, is now operating the Fund We also continue to support the police national weeks of action under Operation Sceptre.</p><p>In addition, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the Spring Statement on 13 March that there will be £100 million additional funding for the police in 2019/20 to tackle serious violence, including £80m of new funding from the Treasury. The majority of the investment will largely go towards supporting police forces most affected by the violence we are seeing, but the funding will also support Violence Reduction Units, bringing together a range of agencies, including health, education, social services and others, to develop a multi-agency approach to preventing serious violence.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 15/05/2019 14:05:58 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3733 label Biography information for Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington

1134697

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide sufficient support for police forces tackling increased rates of knife crime among young people.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL16664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is determined to do everything it can to tackle knife crime and break the deadly cycle of violence that devastates the lives of victims, families and communities.</p><p>The police funding settlement provides the police with the biggest increase in funding since 2010, and in addition we are providing the additional £100 million to tackle serious violence announced in the Spring Statement on 13 March, which includes £80m of new funding from the Treasury. £63.4 million of this funding has been allocated to the 18 police forces most affected by serious violence to pay for surge operational activity, including increased patrols. £1.6 million has been invested in improving the quality of data on serious violence to support planning and operations. A full list of the forces and the funding they have received from the serious violence fund is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/police-granted-funding-boost-for-action-on-serious-violence" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/police-granted-funding-boost-for-action-on-serious-violence</a></p><p>We are also taking wider actions to address knife crime. The £35m of the Serious Violence Fund is being invested in Violence Reduction Units to support multi-agency efforts to tackle serious violence. Through the Offensive Weapons Act we are tightening the law in relation to knives, including making it an offence to possess certain offensive weapons in private. We are also introducing new Knife Crime Prevention Orders, to help to the police address young people who are on the cusp of serious violence, encouraging them make more positive lifestyle choices. We also continue to support the police national weeks of action against knife crime under Operation Sceptre.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 09/07/2019 14:59:30 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1175351

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what communications have had with (1) the police, and (2) third-sector organisations, about preventative, non-criminal justice approaches to reducing knife crime.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
	uin	HL800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is determined to tackle the scourge of knife crime and other serious violence, which is having a devastating effect on too many victims, families and communities. We are providing the police with the resources and powers they need, including recruiting an extra 20,000 officers over the next three years. Through regular dialogue with the National Police Chiefs’ Council and direct with forces themselves, we will continue to support the police and a wide range of other partners about the challenges they face in tackling serious violence.</p><p> </p><p>The Serious Violence Strategy, published in April 2018, put a new emphasis on prevention and early intervention alongside continuing, robust enforcement. We have also worked with voluntary sector organisations via continuous discussions and visits to support delivery under a number of funding streams. These include the Government’s anti-knife crime Community Fund, where we have supported 175 projects in local communities delivered by voluntary sector agencies to tackle knife crime in the three years since 2017/18. They also include the 40 projects under the £22 million Early Intervention Youth Fund, working with children and young people across England and Wales, which have been delivered by the third sector in some areas and local authorities in others and are supported by Police and Crime Commissioners. In addition, we are providing £200m over the next 10 years through a Youth Endowment Fund to focus on those most at risk of youth violence including those displaying signs such as truancy, aggression and involvement in anti-social behaviour in order to steer them away from becoming serious offenders.</p><p> </p><p>We have also invested £35 million from the £100 million Serious Violence Fund in Violence Reduction Units as a key component of our action to tackle the root causes of serious violence. Violence Reduction Units are non-statutory partnerships which offer leadership and strategic coordination of the local response to serious violence by bringing together police, local government, health and education professionals, community leaders and other key partners to identify the drivers of serious violence and agree a multi-agency response.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 10/02/2020 11:10:02 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1227744

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the current, and (2) the potential future, role of family hubs in preventing knife crime.
	tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
	uin	HL7132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2020 answer text <p>This government is investing £70m over two years to support the development of Violence Reduction Units. Some VRUs have commissioned targeted initiatives aimed at parents and families which strengthen family-based decision-making, provide counselling support and support those with incarcerated parents. The impact of VRUs’ work will take time to be seen, and evidence from the Glasgow VRU suggests that the effect will be gradual and will accumulate over time.</p><p>The Home Office has commissioned an independent process evaluation of VRUs during 2019/20 which will be published later this summer. Evaluation of VRUs during 2020/21 will include both process and impact elements allowing us to investigate how and why any initial impact is occurring. The Youth Violence Commission has welcomed the Government’s commitment to VRUs and the package of challenge and support we have put in place for their success.</p><p>Whilst an assessment has not been made of the role of family hubs in preventing knife crime, this government has invested £1.085bn through the Troubled Families programme. The programme, which is delivered by local authorities and their partners, is driving public services to work together to provide effective, coordinated support to our most disadvantaged families. The risk of serious violence is one of the recently added criterion for suitability for the programme.</p><p>Similarly, this government has made early intervention and prevention a priority, investing £200 million in initiatives to support young people at risk of exploitation and involvement in serious violence, through the Youth Endowment Fund. We are also investing £500 million through the new DCMS Youth Investment Fund over five years, helping to build 60 new youth centres across the country, refurbish around 360 existing youth facilities, and provide over 100 mobile facilities for harder to reach areas. The YIF will also support the provision and coordination of high-quality services for young people, and an investment in the youth workforce.v</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL7131 question first answered 05/08/2020 09:58:39 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

1363242

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the increase in stabbings in the past four years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL3402
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>The latest police recorded crime figures, published by ONS in July 2021 for the year ending March 2021, show that there was a 15% fall in offences involving knives or sharp instruments recorded by the police to 44,286 compared with the year ending March 2020. This was driven by substantial decreases in periods coinciding with national lockdowns. Figures from 2016 to 2021 show a 19% increase in total offences involving the use of a knife.</p><p>Tackling knife crime is a priority and the Government is determined to crack down on the scourge of violence devastating our communities.</p><p>We are clear about the inherent seriousness of offences involving knives and are determined to do all we can to protect communities and see that knife crime offenders are brought to justice. The Government remains extremely concerned by knife crime, and the corresponding increase in the number of victims of violent crime. This is why we have committed £176.5 million over two years to prevent serious violence in local communities and bolstering police capacity to respond to serious violent crimes when they do occur.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 08/11/2021 15:03:26 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1402086

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent steps they have taken to tackle knife crime.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
	uin	HL5338
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>Tackling knife crime is a priority and the Government is determined to crack down on the scourge of violence devastating our communities.</p><p>We are supporting the police every step of the way in this effort. We have given them more powers and resources to go after criminals and take knives and other dangerous weapons off our streets, including through the recruitment of 20,000 additional officers and increasing police funding.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has made £130.5m available this year to tackle serious violence, including murder and knife crime. This includes: £35.5m for Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) which bring together local partners to deliver a range of early intervention and prevention programmes and tackle the drivers of violence in the 18 areas worst affected by serious violence; £30m to support the police to take targeted action in parts of England and Wales most affected by serious violence through the Grip programme, which uses data to identify violence hotspots and target operational activity in those areas; and £20m for new early intervention programmes that will help stop young people from being drawn into violence, including cognitive behavioural therapy, family therapy, as well as specialist support in crisis moments such as when a person is admitted to A&amp;E with a knife injury.</p><p> </p><p>We have also invested £200m over 10 years for the Youth Endowment Fund, which is funding projects to support children and young people at risk of violence and exploitation and to steer them away from crime.</p><p> </p><p>We acknowledge there is more to do which is why we are bringing forward the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill so the law-abiding majority can be confident they are safe. The Bill includes: Serious Violence Reduction Orders, which will give the police the power to stop and search adults already convicted of knife or offensive weapons offences; the Serious Violence Duty, which will require authorities and bodies delivering public services to collaborate to prevent and reduce serious violence in their areas; and offensive weapons homicide reviews which will be introduced to improve the national and local understanding of causes, patterns, victims and perpetrators of violence and homicide.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also prohibited certain particularly dangerous types of knife through the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 and have introduced the offence of possessing specified offensive weapons in private. The Act also introduced Knife Crime Prevention Orders which will provide the police with a vital means to steer those most at risk away from serious violence. On 5 July 2021 we introduced a pilot for KCPOs across the Metropolitan Police area.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 25/01/2022 16:50:02 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick