Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested due to instances of violence involving a machete in the last 12 months.

The Home Office does not currently hold data centrally on the number of people arrested due to instances of violence involving a machete.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of arrests made by police in England and Wales, broken down by offence group, on an annual basis. The latest data, covering the period to March 2024, is available here: Stop and search, arrests and mental health detentions, March 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

However, the data is collected by broader offence group only, such as ‘Violence against the person’, and further details are not provided.

Policing is a devolved matter.