Question follow-through · 113470
Knives: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to reduce knife crime on public transport.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 20 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 2 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to reduce knife crime on public transport.
24 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government’s ambition to halve knife crime within a decade is integral to its Safer Streets Mission The Government are working to achieve this by investing in what we know works and will have the greatest impact - focusing relentlessly on where knife ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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