Question follow-through · 41196
Knives: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce knife crime; and what recent discussions she has had with South Wales Police on community-based interventions (a) Barry and (b) the wider Vale of Glamorga
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 2 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce knife crime; and what recent discussions she has had with South Wales Police on community-based interventions (a) Barry and (b) the wider Vale of Glamorga
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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2 Apr 2025
Answer published
Halving knife crime over the next decade is a key part of the Government’s mission to make our communities safe. We are taking a range of steps to realise this ambition.We recently announced “Ronan’s Law”, a range of measures which will include stricter r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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