Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of measures adopted following the Kinsella Review of anti-knife crime projects, published in February 2011; and if she will make a statement.

There has been no formal assessment of the measures introduced following the
publication of the Kinsella Review. However, we keep the current Ending Gang
and Youth Violence programme under close review, which supports the work of the
33 areas in England and Wales identified as having the most significant gang
problems. This programme is aimed at tackling gang and youth violence and
includes knife crime. Our assessment of the first year (2012-13) of the
programme was positive, with local areas considering it to have been a success.
We are currently finalising the assessment of the second year (2013-14).