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Commons Chamber
Knife crime - Thu 14 Dec 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None school curriculum; e-petition 563199, Increase sentences relating to knife crime; e-petition 300054, - Speech Link
2: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) crime, which used to be called the APPG on knife crime and youth violence. - Speech Link
3: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) see an end to knife crime and an end to stabbings. - Speech Link
4: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) The scheme has resulted in approximately 100 custodial sentences in addition to numerous suspended sentences - Speech Link
5: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley Central) The biggest increase was among young boys aged 16 to 17. Knife crime rates remain stubbornly high. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Metcalfe (Con - South Basildon and East Thurrock) Q I would like to go back to the issue of knife crime, which I am particularly interested in. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Metcalfe (Con - South Basildon and East Thurrock) Are there any other measures that you would have liked to see in it that would help to tackle knife crime - Speech Link
3: Stephen Metcalfe (Con - South Basildon and East Thurrock) But clearly there is a fear of knife crime among the public. We do need to do something about that. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) Do you foresee that this will increase and encourage victims of that particular crime to come forward - Speech Link
2: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) Dame Vera Baird: Now that I understand that the mitigation relating to being coercively controlled will - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) Obviously, in our hate crime project we looked at circumstances where sentences were aggravated because - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (First sitting) - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Metcalfe (Con - South Basildon and East Thurrock) I want to talk a bit about knife crime. - Speech Link
2: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Q Coming to other areas of knife crime, can you give us some examples of how the new offence of possession - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Q Back to knife crime and clause 10 of the Bill. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill - Wed 06 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) people convicted of knife crime, which is a scourge of many communities around the country. - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) look at this again for knife crime offences, and I hope we will have a much more wide-ranging review - Speech Link
3: James Daly (Con - Bury North) I will limit my remarks to issues relating to suspended sentences under 12 months. - Speech Link
4: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) Having heard the points raised by several Members about knife crime, I will look closely at that issue.Our - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Town Centre Safety - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) It contains new powers on knife crime to seize, retain and destroy a bladed article found on private - Speech Link
2: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) When it comes to safety in town centres, my constituency of Northampton North has seen knife crime, and - Speech Link
3: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) If we are to prevent Bournemouth from experiencing a similar rise in knife crime to that we have sadly - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) are at risk and act quickly when knife crime incidents are recorded. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
2nd reading - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) Could he tell us what the percentage increase has been in knife crime since 2015? - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) The Home Secretary did not have the figures to hand on knife crime, but knife crime is up by 70%, and - Speech Link
3: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) sentences; imposing new measures to fight knife crime, including zombie knives; tackling violence against - Speech Link
4: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) public health approach to knife crime. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) Knife crime is up by 70%, devastating young lives. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) a misogyny Bill to create new offences relating to misogynistic conduct. - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) The Sentencing Bill will introduce steps to ensure tougher sentences for criminals and increase the confidence - Speech Link
4: Paulette Hamilton (Lab - Birmingham, Erdington) Last year, my constituency had the highest rate of knife crime in Birmingham. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) The Secretary of State’s plans to increase maths teaching up to 18 are interesting. - Speech Link
2: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) And her answer to crime? - Speech Link
3: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) That equates to a staggering average of 5,197 knife crime offences per year. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) There has been not a 16% increase in the use of food banks, but a 72% increase. - Speech Link
5: Mark Hendrick (LAB - Preston) The crime—I nearly said “the crime minister”; it is a crime, some of the things that I think are going - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) There are five different aspects to this. The first is knife crime. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) Knife crime, gun crime and robbery have all increased, with over 50,000 knife crimes this past year alone - Speech Link
3: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) world of drugs and knife crime. - Speech Link