Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent the online sale of dangerous weapons.

• On 25 January we introduced new legislation to ban zombie-style knives and machetes. This will come in to force on 24 September 2024.
• In the Criminal Justice Bill, legislating for more powers for police to seize knives held in private, increasing maximum sentences for sale of prohibited weapons and underage sales and a new offence of knife possession with violent intent.