Asked by: Andrew Selous (Conservative - South West Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of knife crime incidents recorded in England in the last year for which figures are available were linked to criminal drug taking activity; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects data on the number of selected offences involving a knife or a sharp instrument recorded by the police in England and Wales.
It is not possible to tell from this information whether an offence was related to criminal drug taking activity or not.
The most recently published data for offences involving knives or sharp instruments is for the calendar year 2017 and is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables.
Asked by: Andrew Selous (Conservative - South West Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the location of Vietnamese victims of modern slavery found in the UK in the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Information about the region of exploitation of potential victims of modern slavery referred to the national referral mechanism is collected where known.
This data is published in the UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery 2017 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2017-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery However the published data is not disaggregated by nationality of potential victims.