Question follow-through · 84525
Knives: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of stop and search powers in reducing knife crime.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of stop and search powers in reducing knife crime.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2025
Answer published
Stop and search is an important tool for tackling knife crime, but it must be used fairly and effectively. Getting that balance right is key to meeting the Government’s objective of halving knife crime in ten years. We know that stop and search is most ef...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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