Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on reducing the level of knife crime.

The Government is committed to reducing knife crime, this why we have invested £130.5 million over the last year to tackle serious violence.

This includes £35.5 million for Violence Reduction Units which draw key partners together to address the root causes of violence, and £30 million for targeted police action to deter and disrupt knife crime.