Question follow-through · 19494
Knives: Crime Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with the Metropolitan Police to deploy educational awareness campaigns aimed at reducing youth-related knife crime in London.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with the Metropolitan Police to deploy educational awareness campaigns aimed at reducing youth-related knife crime in London.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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20 Dec 2024
Answer published
Halving knife crime over the next decade is a key part of the Government’s Safer Streets mission. We are taking a range of steps to realise this ambition. For example, we have banned Zombie style knives and zombie style machetes and are currently consulti...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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