Question follow-through · 54420
Knives: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of mandating blunt-tipped kitchen knives for domestic use on rates of knife crime.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 4 Jun 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of mandating blunt-tipped kitchen knives for domestic use on rates of knife crime.
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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4 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government’s mission to halve knife crime over a decade will be delivered through tougher enforcement and stronger prevention. However, we have been clear nothing is off the table when it comes to getting lethal blades off our streets and keeping peop...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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