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1732931

registered interest
date	09/10/2024
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 initial steps her Department is taking to progress the Government’s objective to halve knife crime in a decade.
tabling member constituency	Hinckley and Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	8227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2024 answer text <p>Halving knife crime over the next decade is a moral mission for this Government and we are already taking a range of initial steps to realise this ambition.</p><p>We implemented the ban on zombie-style knives and zombie-style machetes approved by Parliament in April. It is now illegal to manufacture, supply, sell or possess these dangerous weapons. We will also introduce a ban on Ninja swords as soon as possible. We will be launching a consultation shortly and plan to introduce the legislation afterwards when Parliamentary time allows.</p><p>Intervening early to stop young people being drawn into crime is a fundamental part of our approach and that is why we are creating a new Young Futures Programme. It is vital that we have a system to identify and support this cohort who need it most and we will be introducing Local Prevention Partnerships and Young Futures Hubs to help deliver this.</p><p>The Prime Minister launched a Coalition to tackle the scourge of knife crime last month. The Coalition will bring together key stakeholders to work with experts to develop an extensive understanding of what causes young people to be dragged into violence.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 18/10/2024 13:17:04 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1732932

registered interest
date	09/10/2024
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 recent discussions she has had with (a) police chiefs, (b) other statutory bodies and (c) third party bodies and community organisations to progress the her Department's objective to halve knife crime in a decade.
tabling member constituency	Hinckley and Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	8228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2024 answer text <p>The government has launched a coalition to tackle knife crime with campaign groups, charities and victims’ families alongside key partners.</p><p>The coalition will bring together key stakeholders and work with experts to develop an extensive understanding of what causes young people to be involved in knife crime as well as holding government departments to account for progress in halving knife crime in a decade</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 18/10/2024 10:54:35 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1732103

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
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 she is taking to prevent knife crime in Aldershot constituency.
tabling member constituency	Aldershot
tabling member printed	Alex Baker
uin	7646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>Halving knife crime over the next decade is a key part of the Government’s mission to take back our streets. The Government is taking a range of steps to realise this ambition.</p><p>The government introduced a ban of zombie style knives and zombie style machetes. A surrender scheme was launched on 26 August to remove these knives from our streets. Following this, the manufacture, supply, sale and possession of zombie-style knives and machetes was outlawed on 24 September 2024.  The government will soon so go further by publishing a consultation on the ban of lethal ninja swords.</p><p>We will also create a new Young Futures programme - intervening earlier to stop young people being drawn into crime. It is vital we have a system that can identify and support those young people who need it most and we will be introducing Prevention Partnerships and Young Futures Hubs to help deliver this.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 14/10/2024 12:01:06 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	5173

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

1727413

registered interest
date	04/09/2024
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 she is taking to reduce knife crime.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Chris Hinchliff
uin	4303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2024 answer text <p>The government has set on a mission to halve knife crime over the next decade, and is already taking decisive action to prevent young people from being drawn into violent crime and to get dangerous knifes off our streets.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 13/09/2024 12:48:11 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	5244

1724053

registered interest
date	29/07/2024
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, if she will hold discussions with the Mayor of London on steps to tackle knife crime.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2024 answer text <p>The Home Secretary has already met the Mayor of London to discuss knife crime and other related issues, and will maintain regular discussions with the Mayor and other key stakeholders throughout the country to tackle this awful crime.</p><p>.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 02/09/2024 11:08:54 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1723911

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
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 she is taking to ban ninja swords, zombie knives and machetes.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	900117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2024 answer text <p>The Government has a manifesto commitment to ban ninja swords and other weapons and we will be taking this forward as soon as possible, ensuring that lethal blades which have been used to kill teenagers on our streets are no longer available to buy or sell.</p><p>We will also be implementing the ban on zombie-style knives and zombie-style machetes approved by Parliament in April.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 29/07/2024 15:14:44 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1718316

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
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 (a) meetings and (b) other discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on knife crime in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	26416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Secretary and Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire regularly meet with the Mayor of London and Police and Crime Commissioners to discuss crime and policing matters.</p><p>Since 2019, the Home Office has provided over £43m of funding for a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) in London which is providing a multi-agency, preventative response designed to tackle the drivers of serious violence and knife crime in London. In addition, c.£8.1m has been awarded in 2024/25 to deliver the ‘Hotspot Response’ programme and enable additional, high visibility patrols and problem-solving tactics in the areas worst affected by serious violence and ASB.</p><p>Additionally, just under £1.3m has been awarded in 2023/24 to support delivery of the Serious Violence Duty in London.</p><p>Following a surrender scheme, the manufacture, supply, sale and possession of zombie-style knives and machetes that are designed to look intimidating but have no practical purpose will be outlawed from 24 September 2024.</p><p>Additionally, through the Criminal Justice Bill, we are providing more powers for police to seize knives held in private that they believe will be used for unlawful violence, increasing the maximum penalty for the offences of selling prohibited weapons and selling knives to under 18s and creating a new offence of possessing an article with blade or point or an offensive weapon with intent to commit unlawful violence.</p><p>We are also providing £3.5 million into the research, development, and evaluation of new technologies to reduce knife crime, including knife detection technologies. The Metropolitan Police has been given £547,863 for further live facial recognition mobile units to be deployed across their 75 London hotspots.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 23/05/2024 15:37:45 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1700523

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
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, how many people under the age of 18 were convicted of knife crime offences in the year ending March (a) 2023 and (b) 2018; and how many such people were first time offenders.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	21410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>In the year ending March 2023, 2,108 children were convicted of a knife crime offence (defined as knife possession and knife threatening offences) and for 1,924 of those individuals this was their first knife crime offence. Compared to the year ending March 2018, 2,635 children were convicted of a knife crime offence and for 2,398 of those individuals this was their first knife crime offence.</p><p> </p><p>In the year ending March 2023, 11,899 people (i.e. adults and children) were convicted of a knife crime offence and for 9,314 of those individuals this was their first knife crime offence. Compared to year ending March 2018, 12,163 people were convicted of a knife crime offence and for 9,865 of those individuals this was their first knife crime offence.</p><p> </p><p>Tackling knife crime is a priority and this Government is determined to do all it can to break the deadly cycle of violence that devastates the lives of individuals, families and communities.</p><p> </p><p>We are taking significant action to both prevent and respond to crimes involving weapons through the Serious Violence Strategy, the Offensive Weapons Act 2019, the recruitment of 20,000 new police officers, and increasing stop and search powers.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 21411 question first answered 22/04/2024 12:49:53 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1700524

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
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, how many people were convicted of knife crime offences in the year ending March (a) 2023 and (b) 2018; and how many such people were first time offenders.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	21411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>In the year ending March 2023, 2,108 children were convicted of a knife crime offence (defined as knife possession and knife threatening offences) and for 1,924 of those individuals this was their first knife crime offence. Compared to the year ending March 2018, 2,635 children were convicted of a knife crime offence and for 2,398 of those individuals this was their first knife crime offence.</p><p> </p><p>In the year ending March 2023, 11,899 people (i.e. adults and children) were convicted of a knife crime offence and for 9,314 of those individuals this was their first knife crime offence. Compared to year ending March 2018, 12,163 people were convicted of a knife crime offence and for 9,865 of those individuals this was their first knife crime offence.</p><p> </p><p>Tackling knife crime is a priority and this Government is determined to do all it can to break the deadly cycle of violence that devastates the lives of individuals, families and communities.</p><p> </p><p>We are taking significant action to both prevent and respond to crimes involving weapons through the Serious Violence Strategy, the Offensive Weapons Act 2019, the recruitment of 20,000 new police officers, and increasing stop and search powers.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 21410 question first answered 22/04/2024 12:49:53 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark