Knives: Crime
(asked on 27th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average custodial sentence length is for a prisoner convicted of a knife crime.
This question was answered on 4th July 2022
The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly ‘Knife and Offensive Weapons Statistics’ available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/knife-possession-sentencing-quarterly.
Information on sentence lengths can be found within the main data tables, specifically, table 3 Information on repeat offenders can be found in tables 7 to 9 (inclusive).