Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish data on the number of knife crimes in (a) Romford constituency and (b) the London Borough of Havering in the last five years.

The Home Office collects information on the number of offences involving the use of a knife or a sharp instrument recorded by the police in England and Wales at the Police Force Area level. These data can be found in the quarterly Office for National Statistics quarterly releases ‘Crime in England and Wales’.

The latest figures can be found at:

Crime in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)