United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 198982
Knives: Sentencing
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12 September 2023
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20 September 2023 · Answer
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20 September 2023
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of increasing the maximum penalty for carrying a knife to more than four years’ imprisonment on trends in the level of knife crime.
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12 September 2023
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of increasing the maximum penalty for carrying a knife to more than four years’ imprisonment on trends in the level of knife crime.
Source: Commons
20 September 2023
Answer
The maximum penalty for being in possession of a knife in public is 4 years imprisonment. In year ending March 2023, the average custodial sentence lengths for knife possession and threatening offences are the highest they have been in the last 10 years, ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-09-12/198982
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1660128
- uk · wq-1660128 · source updated 20 September 2023