Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions for selling a bladed article to a person under 18 years of age there have been in each of the last five years.

The number of defendants prosecuted for selling a bladed article to a person under 18 years of age in the last five years can be found in the Criminal Justice Statistics Outcomes by Offence tool in the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/707811/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2017.xlsx

Select offence: ‘195 Criminal Justice Act 1988 S.141A(1) - Selling a blade to a person aged under 18’

Figures for 2018 are planned for publication in May 2019.