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Member

Speaking in the House of Commons on 18 June 2025

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

There are three key drivers of the proposals. Home Office statistics show that two people are killed by kitchen knives every week. They also show that in homicide cases in which a pointed weapon was used, over half of those weapons were kitchen knives. Research from De Montfort University shows that it is the points of knives that kill. Safer, rounded knives may injure, but they do not penetrate clothing, let alone arteries or vital organs.

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