Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests for knife crimes have taken place in (a) London and (b) Bethnal Green and Bow in each year since 2005.
The information requested is not centrally held by the Home Office.
The Office for National Statistics publish data collected by the Home Office on the number of recorded crimes of ‘possession of article with blade or point’ but this is not broken down by age. Additionally, the Home Office publishes data at the police force and Community Safety Partnership area in Open Data Tables, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
The Home Office publishes arrests by each police force in England and Wales at offence group level only. It is not possible to tell from these data how many arrests related to knife crimes.