Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how long the average custodial sentence is for people found illegally carrying a knife.

The average custodial sentence length for possession of an article with a blade or point can be found in table 3 of the document “Knife and offensive weapon sentencing quarterly: January to March 2018, main tables” at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-and-offensive-weapon-sentencing-january-to-march-2018