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Knives: Crime

Asked by Chris HinchliffLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 13 September 2024UIN 4303

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce knife crime.

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson

The government has set on a mission to halve knife crime over the next decade, and is already taking decisive action to prevent young people from being drawn into violent crime and to get dangerous knifes off our streets.

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