Violent Crime: Young People

Part of Home Department – in the House of Commons at on 21 October 2024.

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Photo of Yvette Cooper Yvette Cooper The Secretary of State for the Home Department

Knife crime takes far too many young lives in this country, so the Government have set a mission—not just for the Government but for policing and local communities right across the country—to halve knife crime over the next decade. As part of that, we have already implemented the ban on zombie knives and zombie-style machetes, and we will now act quickly to ban ninja swords following the campaigning by Pooja Kanda after the death of her son.