Question follow-through · 60164
Knives: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will increase the use of stop and search to tackle knife crime.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will increase the use of stop and search to tackle knife crime.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jun 2025
Answer published
Stop and search remains a fundamental tool for tackling knife crime, exercised fairly and effectively. Police officers have the power to stop and search individuals or vehicles for offensive weapons, provided they have reasonable grounds to suspect they w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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