Offensive Weapons: Crime

(asked on 8th September 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she made of the number of crimes involving a machete in (a) North Yorkshire and (b) England in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Jeremy Quin Portrait
Jeremy Quin
This question was answered on 23rd September 2022

The Home Office collects information from the police on offences involving knives or sharp instruments but it is not possible to separately identify whether or not the weapon was a machete.

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