Question follow-through · 53956
Knives: Crime
To ask the Solicitor General, what recent steps she has taken to help increase prosecution rates for knife crime.
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- Answering body
- Attorney General
- Tabled
- 21 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Solicitor General, what recent steps she has taken to help increase prosecution rates for knife crime.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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2 Jun 2025
Answer published
This Government is committed to halving knife crime in the next decade as set out in our Safer Streets Mission.The number of cases that the CPS prosecuted for possession of a knife under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and Prevention of Crime Act 1953 has r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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