Question follow-through · 28781
Knives: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing sentences for knife crime perpetrators.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing sentences for knife crime perpetrators.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2025
Answer published
Tackling knife crime is a priority and this Government is determined to do all it can to break the deadly cycle of violence that devastates the lives of individuals, families, and communities. It is important that those who commit violent crimes receive a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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