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1682996

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to work with relevant authorities to tackle knife (a) possession and (b) crime among youth in (i) England and (ii) Romford constituency.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	10044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 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 recently consulted on new legislative proposals to tackle knife crime and as a result, in the Criminal Justice Bill, we have introduced provisions to provide more powers for police to seize knives held in private that could be used in crimes, increase the maximum penalty for the offences of selling prohibited weapons and selling knives to under 18s. In the next few weeks, the Government intends to introduce a new ban on zombie-style machetes and knives.</p><p>As a result of the Government’s Police Uplift Programme (PUP) the Metropolitan police service has recruited 3,468 additional uplift officers against a total three-year allocation of 4,557 officers. The Metropolitan Police’s funding will be up to £3,581.1 million for 2024/25, an increase of up to £118.9 million when compared to 2023/24.</p><p>Under this Government, it has never been easier for the police to make legitimate use of stop and search powers. Every knife seized through stop and search is a potential life saved. In 2022-23, stop and search removed over 15,000 weapons and firearms from our streets and resulted over 74,000 arrests across England and Wales. In Essex there were over 2,000 resultant arrests following a stop and search and almost 4,600 searches resulted in a stolen or prohibited article being found in 2022-23.</p><p>The Home Office has invested over £160m since 2019 into the development of 20 Violence Reduction Units across England and Wales with a further £55m made available for 2023/24. Since 2019, we have provided over £43 million to develop and run the London Violence Reduction Unit, which covers Havering. This includes an investment of £9.5m in 2023/24. Violence Reduction Units deter people, particularly young people, from becoming involved in serious violence by bringing together partners from health, probation, policing, housing and beyond and investing in the best evidence-based interventions.</p><p>Through our Grip programme, we are providing additional funding to enable the Metropolitan police to boost patrols in specific streets and neighbourhoods most affected by violence, including Romford High Street. This programme is providing regular, visible patrols to deter violence and provide community reassurance as well as problem-oriented policing.</p><p>Problem-oriented policing is based on an analytical approach that seeks to identify and respond to the specific drivers of violence as they affect the particular location, so that working with partners, the police can take effective preventative action to tackle these. Since 2019, we have provided The Met Police with c.£51.8 million for their delivery of the programme and have awarded them a further c.£8.9 million for this (23/24) financial year.</p><p>Violence Reduction Units, in combination with GRIP, have delivered a statistically significant reduction in hospital admissions for violent injuries since funding began in 2019 (an estimated 3,220 admissions have been prevented in areas where the programmes operate).</p><p>Over 10 years the Home Office is investing £200m in early intervention and prevention initiatives to help children and young people at risk of exploitation and involvement in serious violence, through the Youth Endowment Fund.</p><p>The YEF have funded the SW!TCH Lives project in Romford, which aimed to promote positive actions and emotions and reduce risky behaviour by providing young people with consistent, positive role models, weekly mentoring and positive peer networks. They have also funded ‘You and Me Counselling’ as part of the COVID-19 Learning Project, which aimed to provide targeted support to young people at risk of being involved in violence; and second, to learn fast about the best ways to reach young people during a period of social distancing.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/01/2024 17:35:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1676658

registered interest
date	08/12/2023
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle knife crime in (a) Romford constituency and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	5970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2023 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>As a result of the Government’s Police Uplift Programme (PUP) the Metropolitan Police Service now has over 35,000 officers (35,411), the highest number on record.</p><p>On 31 January, the Government confirmed a total police funding settlement of up to £17.2 billion in 2023/24, an increase of up to £313.8 million when compared to 2022/23. The Metropolitan Police’s funding will be up to £3.3 billion in 2023/24, an increase of up to £102.3 million when compared to 2022/23.</p><p>Since 2019, we have provided over £43 million to develop and run the London Violence Reduction Unit, which covers Havering, including Romford. Violence Reduction Units deter people, particularly young people, from becoming involved in serious violence by bringing together partners from health, probation, policing, housing and beyond and investing in the best evidence-based interventions.</p><p>Since 2019 we have provided the Metropolitan Police, who serve Havering, with over £61 million to deliver targeted enforcement action to tackle serious violence. The Grip programme suppresses and prevents serious violence by using data to identify the top violence hotspots and targets visible police activity in those areas.</p><p>We recently consulted on new legislative proposals to tackle knife crime and as a result, in the Criminal Justice Bill, we have introduced provisions to provide more powers for police to seize knives held in private that could be used in crimes, increase the maximum penalty for the offences of selling prohibited weapons and selling knives to under 18s. When Parliamentary time allows, the Government intends to introduce a new ban on zombie-style machetes and knives that have no practical use.</p><p>Finally, we are also providing £200 million over 10 years for the Youth Endowment Fund, to test and evaluate what works to ensure those young people most at risk are given the opportunity to turn away from violence. This includes a variety of projects across London.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/12/2023 17:39:38 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1563503

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle knife crime in the north of London.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	114547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2023 answer text <p>Whilst the Mayor of London has operational responsibility for policing in the north of London and the rest of the capital, this Government is committed to providing additional resources to the police and their partners to tackle violent crime and make our streets safer.</p><p>To support the prevention of violence in London we have allocated £33.7m since 2019 to the London Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) including a c.£12.6m allocation for this financial year (2022/23), and an additional investment of £5.5m in 2021/22 to deliver specific targeted interventions to vulnerable young people. The London VRU is delivering multiple initiatives with this funding projected to support over 3,200 young people in the capital next year.</p><p>London VRU has been allocated £50m from the Government Funded Youth Endowment Fund, a £200m fund set up by the Home Office to prevent children and young people at risk of involvement in serious violence and crime. Since 19/20, further £52.6m, including c£8.7m for this financial year (2022/23) has been allocated through the Grip programme to the Metropolitan police to deliver additional patrols in streets and neighbourhoods most affected by violent crime.</p><p>The Government continues to encourage all police forces to undertake a series of coordinated national weeks of action (with the latest phase between 16 to 22 May) to tackle knife crime under Operation Sceptre. In the Metropolitan and City Police areas, 126 knives were seized during enforcement action with a further 90 being surrendered or seized during preventative weapon removal sweeps to safeguard public spaces.</p><p>Grip, VRU &amp; YEF funding are provided in addition to the commitment to increase the number of police officers in England and Wales by 20,000 by March 2023. As of 30 September 2022, the Metropolitan Police Service has recruited 3,109 additional uplift officers against a total three-year allocation of 4,557 officers. The deployment of all officers is an operational decision for Chief Constables.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 13/01/2023 14:51:39 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1483407

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish data on the number of knife crimes in (a) Romford constituency and (b) the London Borough of Havering in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	25758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office collects information on the number of offences involving the use of a knife or a sharp instrument recorded by the police in England and Wales at the Police Force Area level. These data can be found in the quarterly Office for National Statistics quarterly releases ‘Crime in England and Wales’.</p><p>The latest figures can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingdecember2021" target="_blank">Crime in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/07/2022 15:37:30 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1483408

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average custodial sentence length is for a prisoner convicted of a knife crime.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	25759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly ‘Knife and Offensive Weapons Statistics’ available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/knife-possession-sentencing-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/knife-possession-sentencing-quarterly</a>.</p><p>Information on sentence lengths can be found within the main data tables, specifically, table 3 Information on repeat offenders can be found in tables 7 to 9 (inclusive).</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 04/07/2022 15:36:19 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1423127

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken a recent assessment of the (a) impact of amnesty bins on helping to prevent knife crime and (b) potential merits of increasing the number of those bins in the London Borough of Havering.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	125016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>The deployment of knife amnesty bins is a decision for local police forces.</p><p>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, surrender of knives, including through amnesty bins, test purchases of knives from retailers, and educational events.</p><p>The latest phase of the operation took place between 15 to 21 November 2021.</p><p>Nationally officers seized 936 knives and 8703 were either surrendered or found in sweeps.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/02/2022 13:22:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
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

1336747

registered interest
date	15/06/2021
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential correlation between levels of knife crime in London and the easing of covid-19 restrictions in May 2021.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	16037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2021 answer text <p>This government is committed to tackling the scourge of knife crime.</p><p>As covid-19 restrictions ease across the country, we are aware that there may be a rise in serious violence. We are closely monitoring the latest data and working with local partners and the police to ensure we are able to respond quickly to any changes in the situation. However, the very latest data from the Metropolitan Police Dashboard shows that the number of knife crime and gun crime incidents in April 2021 remained below the 2-year average.</p><p>We are taking a number of steps to tackle knife crime in London, including:</p><ul><li>Investing £21m in the London Violence Reduction Unit, which brings together key partners to tackle the root causes of violence;</li><li>Investing in a targeted law enforcement response, including through £42m for the Met police to operate hotspot policing;</li><li>Investing in early intervention through our £200m 10 year Youth Endowment Fund, which has provided 28 grants to date to the London area.</li></ul><p>Alongside this, our Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will place a duty on public sector bodies to take a joined up approach to addressing serious violence as well as introduce Serious Violence Reduction Orders, which give the police the authority to stop and search known weapons carriers. We will also be piloting Knife Crime Prevention Orders (KCPO) which will help prevent further knife offending and divert those at risk away from being involved in knife crime. The KCPO Pilot will commence in July 2021 across the whole of the Metropolitan Area.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 16038 question first answered 23/06/2021 10:22:48 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1336748

registered interest
date	15/06/2021
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to help tackle the increase in knife crime in London since mid-May 2021.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	16038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2021 answer text <p>This government is committed to tackling the scourge of knife crime.</p><p>As covid-19 restrictions ease across the country, we are aware that there may be a rise in serious violence. We are closely monitoring the latest data and working with local partners and the police to ensure we are able to respond quickly to any changes in the situation. However, the very latest data from the Metropolitan Police Dashboard shows that the number of knife crime and gun crime incidents in April 2021 remained below the 2-year average.</p><p>We are taking a number of steps to tackle knife crime in London, including:</p><ul><li>Investing £21m in the London Violence Reduction Unit, which brings together key partners to tackle the root causes of violence;</li><li>Investing in a targeted law enforcement response, including through £42m for the Met police to operate hotspot policing;</li><li>Investing in early intervention through our £200m 10 year Youth Endowment Fund, which has provided 28 grants to date to the London area.</li></ul><p>Alongside this, our Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will place a duty on public sector bodies to take a joined up approach to addressing serious violence as well as introduce Serious Violence Reduction Orders, which give the police the authority to stop and search known weapons carriers. We will also be piloting Knife Crime Prevention Orders (KCPO) which will help prevent further knife offending and divert those at risk away from being involved in knife crime. The KCPO Pilot will commence in July 2021 across the whole of the Metropolitan Area.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 16037 question first answered 23/06/2021 10:22:48 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell