Question follow-through · 11889

Knives: Amnesties

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of knives that were surrendered during the knife amnesty between 26 August 2024 and 23 September 2024.

answeredHome Office

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

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

30 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of knives that were surrendered during the knife amnesty between 26 August 2024 and 23 September 2024.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2024
Answer published
We will be shortly publishing the outcome of the surrender and compensationscheme for zombie style knives and machetes. This will include the numbers surrendered under the scheme.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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