Written Question·Home Office·UIN 14836

Crimes of Violence

Tabled: 1 July 2026
Answered: 6 July 2026

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist PartyStrangford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of changes in the levels of violent crime in England and Wales.

Answer

Sarah Jones
At the start of this Parliament, we set two flagship ambitions: to halve knife crime, and to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG).The Office for National Statistics publishes data on crime, including serious violent crime, on a quarterly basis. F...

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