Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how his Department plans to prevent the sale and purchase of machetes and other dangerous knives.
It is already an offence under Section 141 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 to manufacture, import, sell and supply offensive weapons. The list of offensive weapons is below:
https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives
In addition, it is an offence under Section 141(A) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 to sell articles with blade or point to a person under 18.
On 20 June we introduced an Offensive Weapons Bill which includes measures which will stop knives being sent to residential addresses after they have been bought online and will make it an offence to possess certain weapons in private.