Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Joani Reid and Yuan Yang

Monday 13th January 2025 Commons Chamber

[Joani Reid (East Kilbride and Strathaven) (Lab)]

9. What steps her Department is taking to help tackle knife crime.

[Yuan Yang (Earley and Woodley) (Lab)]

22. What steps her Department is taking to help tackle knife crime.

[The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Yvette Cooper)]

We remember those who have lost their lives to knife crime, including 17-year-old Thomas Taylor, killed in Bedford, and 14-year-old Kelyan Bokassa, killed in Woolwich just last week. Kelyan’s mother said:

“I tried to prevent it. I’ve tried so many, so many times.”

No mother should live with that grief or feel that level of fear for her teenage son. That is why this Government have set up the coalition to tackle knife crime, which involves families, alongside taking new action on serious violence.