Question follow-through · 21776
Knives: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she is taking to prevent knife crime amongst young people.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she is taking to prevent knife crime amongst young people.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2026
Answer published
Preventing children and young people from becoming involved in knife crime while supporting the police to tackle offending where it occurs, is central to our mission to halve knife crime in a decade and to make our streets safer. Protecting Lives, Buildin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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