Written Question·Home Office·UIN 4303
Knives: Crime
Tabled: 4 September 2024
Answered: 13 September 2024
Question
Chris Hinchliff
Labour — North East Hertfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce knife crime.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThe 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.