Question follow-through · 93365

Knives: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of requiring shops to hide knives for sale from public view.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 21 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 26 Nov 2025
Answer: 28 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

21 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of requiring shops to hide knives for sale from public view.
26 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Nov 2025
Answer published
Since 2016 there has been a voluntary agreement between the Home Office and most major high street retailers on the responsible sale of knives. The purpose of the agreement is to set out best practice around the sale of knives, including age verification ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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