Question follow-through · 4767
Knives: Crime
To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to help increase prosecution rates for knife crime.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Attorney General
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 12 Sept 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to help increase prosecution rates for knife crime.
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2024
Answer published
This Government is committed to halving knife crime in the next decade as set out in our Safer Streets Mission.From Tuesday 24 September, it will be illegal to own zombie-style knives and machetes as they will be added to the list of dangerous prohibited ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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21 May 2025 · To ask the Solicitor General, what recent steps she has taken to help increase prosecution rates for knife crime.