Offensive Weapons: Children
Commons · Question 127566 · Tabled 15 Apr 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 23 Apr 2026
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of laws to address cases in which parents or carers intentionally conceal, obscure, or fail to disclose a child’s procurement or possession of knives or ot
Answer
Answered by Dan Jarvis, 23 Apr 2026
There is no existing standalone legal duty to compel a parent, carer or any other bystander to report any criminality, including the procurement or possession of knives and weapons.Where parents are unable or unwilling to respond to potential safeguarding...