Knives: Crime
Commons · Question 23615 · Tabled 13 Jan 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that police resources for tackling knife crime at a local level are used effectively.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 21 Jan 2025
This Government has set out an unprecedented mission to halve knife crime over the next decade.As part of the £1 billion increase for policing in 2025-6 set out by the Home Secretary at the provisional police funding settlement, the Home Office is providi...