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.
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.