Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of violent crimes involving a crossbow in the last five years.

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants convicted for a wide range of offences against specific Home Office offence codes in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2023.

However, it is not possible to separately identify offences specifically involving a crossbow from a range of other violent offences. This information to enable such a split may be held on court records, but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate cost.