Oral Question·Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
“What recent steps he has taken to support small businesses.”
Tabled: 20 December 2018Answered: 8 January 2019
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Policing and Crime (Sarah Jones)
We have set an ambitious but essential target to halve knife crime in a decade, and we are already seeing results. Since the start of this Parliament, knife crime has fallen by 8% and knife homicides are down 27% to their lowest level in a decade, but we must and will go further. We are working on the final plans for our cross-Government plan to halve knife crime, which we will publish soon.