Question follow-through · 29107
Knives: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of knife bans on the level of knife-related incidents.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 13 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of knife bans on the level of knife-related incidents.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Feb 2025
Answer published
The legislation in this area is kept under review in the interests of public safety and in line with this we implemented a ban on zombie-style knives and zombie-style machetes on 24 September 2024 and it is now illegal to sell, supply, manufacture or own ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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