Question follow-through · 73991
Knives: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made in tackling knife crime.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made in tackling knife crime.
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2025
Answer published
Halving knife crime is a central mission for this Government and since day one we have acted with urgency to turn the tide on this truly devastating crime. We have seen early signs of progress, with overall knife crime down for the first time in four year...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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