Question follow-through · 40991

Knives: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will ensure there is full consultation with established knife manufacturers and distributors before rules are changed about the design of kitchen knives that can be sold online.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
25 Mar 2025
Target answer date
31 Mar 2025
Answer
31 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will ensure there is full consultation with established knife manufacturers and distributors before rules are changed about the design of kitchen knives that can be sold online.

  2. 31 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 31 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    We will certainly engage with knife manufacturers and distributors as part of these considerations.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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