| Heading: |
Knives: Crime |
| Question ID: |
1804959 |
| UIN: |
53956 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4638 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
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| Asking Member handle: |
TanDhesi
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@TanDhesi
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Solicitor General, what recent steps she has taken to help increase prosecution rates for knife crime. |
| Is named day: |
true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-02 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5333 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lucy Rigby
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Lucy Rigby
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| Answer text: |
This Government is committed to halving knife crime in the next decade as set out in our Safer Streets Mission.The number of cases that the CPS prosecuted for possession of a knife under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and Prevention of Crime Act 1953 has r... |
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| Answering body ID: |
88 |
| Answering body name: |
Attorney General |
| Tweeted: |
true |