Mentions:
1: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) Youth work saves £500 million annually by preventing incidents of antisocial behaviour, knife crime and - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) report, each reduction in the number of youth centres corresponds to an increase in knife crime. - Speech Link
3: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) In 2020, the all-party parliamentary group on child criminal exploitation and knife crime found that - Speech Link
Found: General Debate on knife crime
Mentions:
1: None Set against population growth, that is a huge reduction in this crime, which meant that multiple hundreds - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) When citing the statistics on crime reduction that the Minister cited in his opening speech, about which - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) When we talk about a 56% reduction in crime since 2010 to on a like-for-like basis, which I am sure I - Speech Link
4: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) Knife crime is a scourge in this country. It devastates communities and families. - Speech Link
5: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) on broader knife crime, is whether they would take off the streets a weapon like the one that killed - Speech Link
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce incidences of (a) violent crime, (b) theft in which a weapon is used and (c) theft in which no weapon is used.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Homicide, gun crime, and knife crime are all below their pre-pandemic levels. The Home Office is investing over £110m to tackle serious violence in 2023/24. This includes:
We are also banning certain types of large knives (such as zombie style knives and machetes), giving the police more powers to seize dangerous weapons, creating a new offence of possession of a bladed weapon with an intent to harm, and increasing sentences for those who import, manufacture or sell dangerous weapons to under 18s.
On theft, we welcome the latest Crime Survey for England and Wales data, which shows a 77% per cent fall in robbery and a 52% fall in theft from the person in the year to March 2023 compared to the year to March 2010.
The Safer Streets Fund lies at the heart of the Government’s strategy for cutting crime, protecting the law-abiding majority, and making neighbourhoods safe. We have invested £120m since 2020 into the Safer Streets Fund to increase the safety of public spaces for all, targeting neighbourhood crimes such as theft and robbery. The Fund is also intended to boost trust in the police and make communities feel safer.
On 28 August police forces across England and Wales committed to a ministerial request to follow up on ‘reasonable lines of enquiry’ where there is a reasonable chance it could lead them to catching a perpetrator and solving a crime. This will include taking full advantage of footage from CCTV, phones and smart doorbells to help identify suspects and tracking stolen items where reasonable and proportionate to do so.
Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) against retail workers and retail crime. - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) No one has seen this scale of crime and the—often weaponised —violence and abuse that goes with that. - Speech Link
3: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) minimum term, and you can stab somebody 79 times in their own kitchen with a knife and face a starting - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) It contains new powers on knife crime to seize, retain and destroy a bladed article found on private - Speech Link
2: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) When it comes to safety in town centres, my constituency of Northampton North has seen knife crime, and - Speech Link
3: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) The first, relating to police resources, is a violence reduction unit. - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) targeting knife crime and offensive weapons. - Speech Link
5: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) are at risk and act quickly when knife crime incidents are recorded. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) crime, deter crime and reassure the public. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Metcalfe (Con - South Basildon and East Thurrock) There was a recent national police initiative to tackle knife crime. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Metcalfe (Con - South Basildon and East Thurrock) The set of provisions around knife crime is very welcome. - Speech Link
4: Stephen Metcalfe (Con - South Basildon and East Thurrock) in tackling knife crime? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) For example, the plan included the introduction of violence reduction units and investment in safer streets - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Commission, for the implementation of a violence reduction unit equivalent to the Scottish Violence - Speech Link
Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to use artificial intelligence to help (a) predict and (b) prevent violent attacks involving (i) machetes and (ii) zombie knives.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office is working across government and with operational partners to develop our understanding of the threats and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence. The Home Office has already convened and will be convening further meetings to identify the best opportunities to use artificial intelligence to prevent and detect crime of various types. The use of artificial intelligence to predict and prevent serious violence is an operational matter for Chief Constables.
Knife crime is below its pre-pandemic level and the Home Office is investing over £110m to tackle serious violence in 2023/24. This includes:
We are also banning certain types of large knives (such as zombie style knives and machetes), giving the police more powers to seize dangerous weapons, creating a new offence of possession of a bladed weapon with an intent to harm, and increasing sentences for those who import, manufacture or sell dangerous weapons to under 18s.
Written Evidence Apr. 17 2024
Inquiry: Violence and abuse towards retail workersFound: VTR0039 - Violence and abuse towards retail workers Katy Bourne OBE Written Evidence