Written questions

Knives: West Midlands

Commons · Question 53868 · Tabled 21 May 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 6 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the levels of knife crime in the West Midlands in the last five years.

Answer

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 6 Jun 2025

Halving knife crime over the next decade is a key part of the Government’s Safer Streets Mission and driving down serious violence across the UK, including in the West Midlands, will play a key role in meeting this ambition.In the West Midlands, the gover...