Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to provide extra funding to the Metropolitan Police to tackle knife crime.

The Government has increased funding for the police by £450 million in 2018/19, including around £270 million of direct funding for forces from increased precept flexibility. The Mayor of London recently announced that he would be providing £110 million of additional funding to the Metropolitan Police in 2018/19, drawn in part from his decision to use this flexibility to raise over £40 million of additional local income.