Clause 25 - Penalties etc. for offence under s.24
Violent Crime Reduction Bill
3:15 pm
Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Labour)
Is the hon. Lady aware that there is some evidence, in east London certainly, that knife crime is supplanting gun crime? There is evidence that as the Government bear down on gun crime, young people are turning to knives precisely because the penalties are lower.