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Offensive Weapons: Crime

Question for Home Office

UIN 49714, tabled on 8 September 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she made of the number of crimes involving a machete in (a) North Yorkshire and (b) England in each of the last five years.

Answered on

23 September 2022

The Home Office collects information from the police on offences involving knives or sharp instruments but it is not possible to separately identify whether or not the weapon was a machete.

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Home Office
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