Question follow-through · 128761
Knives: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to enforce age restrictions on the (a) online and (b) offline sale of knives to persons under the age of 18.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 21 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 27 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to enforce age restrictions on the (a) online and (b) offline sale of knives to persons under the age of 18.
23 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Apr 2026
Answer published
On 7 April 2026 the Government published ‘Protecting Lives, Building Hope: A Plan to Halve Knife Crime’, which sets out how the Government is aiming to halve knife crime in the decade to 2034. We have been taking action in the Crime and Policing Bill, whi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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