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Knives: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of placing a ban on a) machetes and b) large hunting knives.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
17 Dec 2025
Answer
23 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of placing a ban on a) machetes and b) large hunting knives.

  2. 17 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    Knife crime has a devasting impact on families and communities across the country, and the Government is aiming to halve knife crime in the next decade. We keep the law in this area under constant review, and this includes the continuing availability of m...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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