Member

The Government’s own data show that knife crime is rising. In 2024 alone, more than 50,000 recorded offences in England and Wales involved a knife or sharp instrument. Over 200 of those incidents resulted in a fatality, accounting for more than half of all homicides in the same period. Such crimes are devastating. They take lives, destroy families, shatter communities, and erode the public’s sense of safety. It is therefore right that we take firm and proportionate action to reduce knife crime and serious violence more broadly.