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Mentions:
1: Constance, Angela (SNP - Almond Valley) I share Collette Stevenson’s concern about youth crime. - Speech Link
2: Constance, Angela (SNP - Almond Valley) , which includes information on the recording and handling of non-crime hate incidents. - Speech Link
Report May. 31 2024
Committee: Citizen Participation and Public Petitions CommitteeFound: Dr Fern Gillon, University of Glasgow; Dr Susan Batchelor , University of Glasgow; Emily Beever , No Knives
Formal Minutes May. 29 2024
Committee: Petitions CommitteeFound: and gas wholesale prices 59 Introduce higher maximum sentences for possession of more dangerous knives
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders convicted of knife crime offences were sentenced to immediate custody of 12 months or less in each of the last five years.
Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department holds on the number and proportion of offenders convicted of a knife-crime offence who had previously been convicted of (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four, (e) five and (f) more than five knife-crime offences who were sentenced to an immediate prison sentence of up to 12 months in each of the last five years.
Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I say that because I am proud of our record, from our soaring literacy rates to our halving of crime. - Speech Link
2: Chris Webb (Lab - Blackpool South) Shocking figures announced yesterday showed a 416% increase in weapon and knife crime in Blackpool—the - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) bans on particular knives, and a huge effort made by our local police. - Speech Link
4: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) They have banned nitrous oxide, tackled zombie knives, provided £180 million for south Essex hospitals - Speech Link
Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) meetings and (b) other discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on knife crime in the last 12 months.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Secretary and Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire regularly meet with the Mayor of London and Police and Crime Commissioners to discuss crime and policing matters.
Since 2019, the Home Office has provided over £43m of funding for a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) in London which is providing a multi-agency, preventative response designed to tackle the drivers of serious violence and knife crime in London. In addition, c.£8.1m has been awarded in 2024/25 to deliver the ‘Hotspot Response’ programme and enable additional, high visibility patrols and problem-solving tactics in the areas worst affected by serious violence and ASB.
Additionally, just under £1.3m has been awarded in 2023/24 to support delivery of the Serious Violence Duty in London.
Following a surrender scheme, the manufacture, supply, sale and possession of zombie-style knives and machetes that are designed to look intimidating but have no practical purpose will be outlawed from 24 September 2024.
Additionally, through the Criminal Justice Bill, we are providing more powers for police to seize knives held in private that they believe will be used for unlawful violence, increasing the maximum penalty for the offences of selling prohibited weapons and selling knives to under 18s and creating a new offence of possessing an article with blade or point or an offensive weapon with intent to commit unlawful violence.
We are also providing £3.5 million into the research, development, and evaluation of new technologies to reduce knife crime, including knife detection technologies. The Metropolitan Police has been given £547,863 for further live facial recognition mobile units to be deployed across their 75 London hotspots.
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It is clear that there is a market for hidden knives. - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) I did not know about knives disguised as belt buckles. - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) There will be tough new laws to restrict the sale of knives. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Edwards (Lab - Tamworth) Reports of knife crime continue to rise. - Speech Link
5: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) Far more knives are banned today than was the case in 2010. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) bring themselves on to the straight and narrow.The Government have already acted, through the Police, Crime - Speech Link
2: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) At the moment, there is no cohesive plan to stop young people picking up knives, which is why Labour - Speech Link
3: Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green) skills and qualifications necessary to prepare them for their release into the community.The Police, Crime - Speech Link