Question follow-through · 11886
Knives: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce knife crime in Slough.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce knife crime in Slough.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2024
Answer published
Halving knife crime over the next decade is a key part of the Government’s Safer Streets mission, and we are taking immediate action to tackle the scourge of serious violence on our streets. We have implemented the ban on zombie-style knives and machetes,...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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