| Heading: |
Knives: Crime |
| Question ID: |
1805542 |
| UIN: |
54420 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5034 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Josh Newbury
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| Asking Member handle: |
joshnewburymp
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@joshnewburymp
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of mandating blunt-tipped kitchen knives for domestic use on rates of knife crime. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-04 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1533 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Diana Johnson
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| Answering Member handle: |
DianaJohnsonMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@DianaJohnsonMP
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| Answer text: |
The Government’s mission to halve knife crime over a decade will be delivered through tougher enforcement and stronger prevention. However, we have been clear nothing is off the table when it comes to getting lethal blades off our streets and keeping peop... |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |