Written Question·Home Office·UIN 191115

Knives: Organised Crime

Tabled: 26 June 2023
Answered: 5 July 2023
Named Day

Question

Naz Shah

LabourBradford West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion street-based knife crime incidents (a) were and (b) were not the result of gang activity in each of the last five years.

Answer

Chris Philp
The Home Office does not routinely collect information on whether offences involving knives or sharp instruments occurred on the street, or if they were related to gang activity.Violent crime as measured by the Crime Survey for England and Wales has falle...

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