Question follow-through · 4303
Knives: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce knife crime.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 13 Sept 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce knife crime.
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Sept 2024
Answer published
The government has set on a mission to halve knife crime over the next decade, and is already taking decisive action to prevent young people from being drawn into violent crime and to get dangerous knifes off our streets.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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