Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of knife crime incidents recorded in England in the last year for which figures are available were linked to criminal drug taking activity; and if he will make a statement.

The Home Office collects data on the number of selected offences involving a knife or a sharp instrument recorded by the police in England and Wales.

It is not possible to tell from this information whether an offence was related to criminal drug taking activity or not.

The most recently published data for offences involving knives or sharp instruments is for the calendar year 2017 and is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables.