Question follow-through · 33447
Knives: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the accessibility of knives online.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the accessibility of knives online.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government has set out an unprecedented mission to halve knife crime in a decade and we are already taking a range of steps to make our communities a safer place for our young people.We know that more needs to be done to tackle the sale of knives and ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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