Offensive Weapons

(asked on 13th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many weapons have been handed in under the surrender scheme as part of the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 by (a) type of weapon and (b) the amount paid out in compensation.


Answered by
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Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 19th July 2021

The Government ran the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 surrender and compensation scheme from 10 December 2020 to 9 March 2021 to allow members of the public to surrender to the police those weapons covered by the scheme and to claim compensation from the Home Office. The weapons concerned were specific knives, offensive weapons, rapid firing rifles and bump stocks, as specified in the Act. The total number of weapons surrendered by weapon type and by the amount of compensation paid is set out in the tables below.

Following the successful completion of the scheme, the Government commenced the provisions in the Offensive Weapons Act relating to the possession of these weapons on 14 July.

FIREARMS

Weapon Type

Total number surrendered

Total compensation paid

Lever release rifles

1,000

£2,783,859.46

MARS rifles

133

£262,470.25

Bump stock

1

£0

FIREARMS ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT

Total number surrendered

Total compensation paid

Ancillary equipment

32,348

£781,766.40

OFFENSIVE WEAPONS

Weapon type

Total number surrendered

Total compensation paid

Flick knife

719

£16,852.50

Gravity knife

53

£2,916.85

Zombie knife

224

£2,299.82

Cyclone knife

9

£173.74

Curved sword

255

£13,536.33

Baton

2,991

£30,377.09

Stealth knife

17

£51

Disguised knife

41

£205

Knuckle Duster

959

£2,290.06

Swordstick

27

£3,227.91

Handclaw

3

£27

Belt buckle knife

8

£40

Push dagger

865

£1,781

Hollow kubotan

23

£98

Footclaw

1

£7

Shuriken

94

£405

Balisong

68

£1,538

Telescopic truncheon

8,504

£170,110

Blowpipe

61

£854

Kusari gama

4

£105

Kusari

38

£380

Kyoketsu shoge

1

£20

Source: the information has been drawn from the Offensive Weapons Act surrender and compensation scheme casework tool using the Claimed Weapons by Coding (numbers of weapons) and Weapons by Coding (compensation values) reports.

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