Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to reduce knife crime in London.

Tackling knife crime is a priority for the Government and we are taking firm action including warning young people about the dangers of carrying knives, and working with retailers to ensure there are effective controls on knife sales in the high street and online, and legislating to ban the sale and importation of zombie knives.

21 police forces, including the Metropolitan Police Service, also recently took part in a week of action against knife crime, which involved targeting habitual knife carriers, weapon sweeps, the use of surrender bins, and test purchases from identified retailers.