Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with her counterparts in the police on reducing knife crime.

Home Office Ministers meet regularly with Chief Constables and other senior policing leaders to discuss knife crime. For example, the Home Secretary discussed knife crime at the National Policing Board in July 2025 and the Policing Minister chaired the Knife-Enabled Robbery Group in November 2025.