Written Question·Home Office·UIN 99780

Knives: Crime Prevention

Tabled: 15 December 2025
Answered: 23 December 2025

Question

Sir Julian Smith

ConservativeSkipton and Ripon

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

Answer

Mike Tapp
Tackling knife crime is a priority for Government. Since this Government has been in office, knife homicides have fallen by almost 20% while knife crime overall has fallen for the first time in 4 years, dropping by 5% in our first year from 54,215 to 51,5...

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