Written Question·Home Office·UIN 9467
Knives: Crime
Tabled: 16 October 2024
Answered: 23 October 2024
Named DayQuestion
Neil Coyle
Labour — Bermondsey and Old Southwark
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of using Nightingale Courts to tackle (a) mobile phone thefts, (b) other robberies at knifepoint and (c) other knife crime.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonNo specific assessment has been made about the use of Nightingdale Courts for these specific offences ; 20 of which remain open and will continue to be used by judges until at least March 2025.This Government is committed to halving knife crime over 10 ye...
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