Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 40 of the Mayor's Office of Policing and Crime's report, The London Knife Crime Strategy, published in June 2017, what assessment she has made of the need for legislative proposals to introduce new knife crime-related community orders.

The Home Office is working closely with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime and we have noted the recommendations in their recently published strategy. There are already a range of sentencing options available to the courts to tackle knife crime offending including community orders as well as a range of other wider orders such as Criminal Behaviour Orders and gang injunctions.