Question follow-through · 5853
Knives: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to tackle knife crime in the North East Somerset and Hanham constituency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to tackle knife crime in the North East Somerset and Hanham constituency.
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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9 Jun 2026
Answer published
We have set a clear and ambitious target: to halve knife crime in a decade. We are already seeing results. Since the start of this Parliament, knife crime has fallen by 10% and knife homicides are down 27%, at their lowest level in a decade. In Avon and S...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Respect Orders
10 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what demographic data her Department plans to collect on the number of Respect Orders issued.