Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to ban machetes and zombie knives.

The Government will seek to legislate a ban on certain types of large knives and machetes that do not seem to have practical use and appear to appeal to those who want to use these items as weapons when parliamentary time allows.

Once the new legislation is in force, it will be a criminal offence to import, sell or possess these types of weapons.