Written Question·Home Office·UIN 907771

Knives: Crime

Tabled: 3 February 2026
Answered: 9 February 2026
Named Day

Question

Natasha Irons

LabourCroydon East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on tackling knife crime.

Answer

Sarah Jones
We have set an ambitious but essential target: to halve knife crime over this decade. We are already seeing results. Knife crime is falling.Since the start of this Parliament, knife crime has fallen by 8% and knife homicides are down by 27%.We have banned...

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