Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to extend the Primary Authority Scheme to knife sales.

In March 2016, we agreed a set of commitments with major retailers to prevent the underage sales of knives in their stores and online. One of the commitments made in the agreement on knife sales with major retailers was to consider primary authority being extended to include knives. We agree in principle with extending primary authority to knife sales but this requires secondary legislation and we will bring this forward in due course.