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1121275

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on improving prosecution rates for knife crime.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	910353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>Government departments are working quickly to tackle this serious issue.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our strong response, the Prime Minister hosted a Serious Youth Violence Summit at 10 Downing Street, with the support of the Home Secretary, from 1 to 4 April, which I took part in.</p><p> </p><p>The Summit will now lead on to an increased programme of work across Government and beyond that will be overseen by a new Ministerial Taskforce, chaired by the Prime Minister, to drive action across Government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 910350 question first answered 11/04/2019 12:17:54 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1121271

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on improving prosecution rates for knife crime.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	910350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>Government departments are working quickly to tackle this serious issue.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our strong response, the Prime Minister hosted a Serious Youth Violence Summit at 10 Downing Street, with the support of the Home Secretary, from 1 to 4 April, which I took part in.</p><p> </p><p>The Summit will now lead on to an increased programme of work across Government and beyond that will be overseen by a new Ministerial Taskforce, chaired by the Prime Minister, to drive action across Government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 910353 question first answered 11/04/2019 12:17:54 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1121791

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps he is taking to tackle the rise in knife crime.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	245949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>Government Departments are working quickly to tackle knife crime and the CPS continues to prosecute knife crime robustly. Charges for offensive weapons and possession of a bladed article increased to 27,525 in 2017/18, compared with 25,993 in 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p>I attended the Serious Youth Violence Summit hosted by the Prime Minister in April to discuss this serious issue. Following the Summit, cross-government work will now be overseen and driven forward by the new Serious Violence Strategy Implementation Taskforce chaired by the Prime Minister. The Attorney General will be a member of this Taskforce, and both he and I regularly engage with discussions about effectively tackling knife crime.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 25/04/2019 14:18:35 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1728103

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to help increase prosecution rates for knife crime.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	4767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2024 answer text <p>This Government is committed to halving knife crime in the next decade as set out in our Safer Streets Mission.</p><p>From Tuesday 24 September, it will be illegal to own zombie-style knives and machetes as they will be added to the list of dangerous prohibited items already banned, including zombie knives, butterfly knives, Samurai swords, and push daggers. The Government will also legislate to ban ninja swords and strengthen rules to prevent online sales of knives.</p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service and National Police Chiefs’ Council also work closely to prevent and tackle knife crime. Guidance setting out their joint approach to knife crime offending can be found here: <a href="https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/offensive-weapons-knife-crime-practical-guidance" target="_blank">Offensive Weapons, Knife Crime Practical Guidance | The Crown Prosecution Service (cps.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Sarah Sackman question first answered 12/09/2024 13:37:34 answering member 5204
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1019411

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of knife related incidents that have not resulted in a successful prosecution in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	198171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of cases relating to knife crime incidents that have not resulted in a successful prosecution. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>National figures on selected offences involving a knife or sharp instrument may be obtained from the <em>Crime in England and Wales Bulletin Tables</em> published by the Office of National Statistics.</p><p>National figures on the numbers of prosecutions and outcomes for specific criminal offences including possession of weapons may be obtained from the official statistics published by the Ministry of Justice.</p><p>Prosecutions for knife related incidents may be brought by way of Section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 which provides for the offence of possession of a bladed or pointed article in a public place or Section 1 of the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 which makes the possession of an offensive weapon in a public place an offence.</p><p>The information held by CPS on such offences is limited to the number of offences in which a CPS prosecution was charged and which reached a first hearing in the Magistrates Court. The tables below show the number of these offences for England and Wales and the West Midlands CPS Area.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Table 1 - England &amp; Wales</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010-2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criminal Justice Act 1988 { 139 }</p></td><td><p>12,717</p></td><td><p>12,641</p></td><td><p>10,483</p></td><td><p>11,090</p></td><td><p>11,712</p></td><td><p>13,261</p></td><td><p>15,204</p></td><td><p>16,619</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prevention of Crime Act 1953 { 1 }</p></td><td><p>12,387</p></td><td><p>11,272</p></td><td><p>9,460</p></td><td><p>8,846</p></td><td><p>9,018</p></td><td><p>9,821</p></td><td><p>10,789</p></td><td><p>10,906</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Table 2 - West Midlands CPS Area</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010-2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criminal Justice Act 1988 { 139 }</p></td><td><p>1,147</p></td><td><p>1,259</p></td><td><p>1,036</p></td><td><p>1,078</p></td><td><p>1,145</p></td><td><p>1,455</p></td><td><p>1,676</p></td><td><p>1,890</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prevention of Crime Act 1953 { 1 }</p></td><td><p>1,123</p></td><td><p>1,054</p></td><td><p>822</p></td><td><p>877</p></td><td><p>914</p></td><td><p>994</p></td><td><p>1,158</p></td><td><p>1,183</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It should be noted that the figures relate to the number of offences and not the number of individual defendants. It is often the case that an individual defendant is charged with more than one offence.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 06/12/2018 17:32:34 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1108891

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what recent discussions he has had with the CPS on the effectiveness of prosecution in cases involving knife crime.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	239333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>The CPS continues to prosecute knife crime robustly. The Attorney General, the Director of Public Prosecutions and I have participated in discussions on delivering the Government’s Serious Violence Strategy. Both the CPS and AGO were represented by the Solicitor General at the Prime Minister’s recent Serious Youth Violence Summit between 1<sup>st</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> April, and will be represented on the Prime Ministers Serious Violence Implementation Taskforce by the Law Officers.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 10/04/2019 11:46:49 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1420781

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people illegally carrying knives have been charged for manslaughter in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	120673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2022 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of people illegally carrying knives who have been charged with the offence or offences of manslaughter. This information could only be obtained by an examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>There is no system of plea bargaining in courts in England and Wales. It may be appropriate for a plea to be accepted to alternative charges in some cases. However, the CPS do not capture any data on cases where this occurs centrally; therefore, the information could only be obtained by an examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost. The CPS uses the Code for Crown Prosecutors to decide the charge and the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-acceptance-of-pleas-and-the-prosecutors-role-in-the-sentencing-exercise" target="_blank">Attorney General’s guidelines on acceptance of pleas</a>, in deciding whether to accept a guilty plea to a lesser charge. In both its Legal Guidance on Offensive Weapons and the Knife Crime Practical Guidance, the CPS state that the weapon offence should be charged in addition to the substantive offence.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 120674 question first answered 18/02/2022 12:51:02 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1420782

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many offenders involved in violent knife crime have engaged in a charge bargain to lessen their sentence in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	120674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2022 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of people illegally carrying knives who have been charged with the offence or offences of manslaughter. This information could only be obtained by an examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>There is no system of plea bargaining in courts in England and Wales. It may be appropriate for a plea to be accepted to alternative charges in some cases. However, the CPS do not capture any data on cases where this occurs centrally; therefore, the information could only be obtained by an examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost. The CPS uses the Code for Crown Prosecutors to decide the charge and the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-acceptance-of-pleas-and-the-prosecutors-role-in-the-sentencing-exercise" target="_blank">Attorney General’s guidelines on acceptance of pleas</a>, in deciding whether to accept a guilty plea to a lesser charge. In both its Legal Guidance on Offensive Weapons and the Knife Crime Practical Guidance, the CPS state that the weapon offence should be charged in addition to the substantive offence.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 120673 question first answered 18/02/2022 12:51:02 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1282055

registered interest
date	29/01/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of knife crime in the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	145748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2021 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 12/02/2021 15:04:53 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez attachment 1 file name PQ Response to PQ 145748.pdf title UKSAs response to PQ 145748
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1609359

registered interest
date	30/03/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many instances of knife crime have been recorded in (a) the West Midlands, (b) Birmingham and (c) the Birmingham, Erdington constituency, in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
tabling member printed	Mrs Paulette Hamilton
uin	177947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p> </p><p>A response to the Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 30th March is attached.</p><p><strong><p><p></strong></p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 17/04/2023 13:22:12 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin attachment 1 file name PQ177947 (1).pdf title UK Statistics Authority Response
tabling member	4938 label Biography information for Mrs Paulette Hamilton