United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 100930
Knives: Crime
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17 December 2025
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9 January 2026 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to expand the use of stop-and-search powers in areas with persistently high levels of knife crime.
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17 December 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to expand the use of stop-and-search powers in areas with persistently high levels of knife crime.
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9 January 2026
Answer
Stop and search is an important power that helps the police to get knives off our streets and save lives.Police have powers to search any individual or vehicle where there are reasonable grounds to suspect they will find offensive weapons. Where serious v...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-12-17/100930
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1865538
- uk · wq-1865538 · source updated 9 January 2026