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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