Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for the publication of the consultation on offensive and dangerous weapons.

The Government published its consultation for proposals for new legislative measures on offensive and dangerous weapons on 14 October 2017 and the consultation closed on 9 December. The consultation received 10,712 responses.

My Right Honourable Friend, the Home Secretary, made a Written Ministerial Statement to the House on 20 June (Official Report HCWS780) announcing the publication of a summary of the responses that the consultation received. Copies of the summary are available in the House Library and on the Gov.uk website at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/offensive-and-dangerous-weapons-new-legislation.