Written Question·Home Office·UIN 4303

Knives: Crime

Tabled: 4 September 2024
Answered: 13 September 2024

Question

Chris Hinchliff

LabourNorth East Hertfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce knife crime.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
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.