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Knife Crime

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

476 c938-62 

Session

2007-08

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lee Scott | 476 c940 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister join me in congratulating groups, such as Hainault Youth Action and the Open Door ...

Lord Coaker | 476 c939-40 (Link to this contribution) Without commenting on that case, although I recognise the awfulness of what happened, I can say that...

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Lord Redwood | 476 c940 (Link to this contribution) On a related point, is not the problem primarily one of feral youths in gangs going armed? If they a...

Lord Coaker | 476 c940 (Link to this contribution) To be fair, the hon. Gentleman makes an important point. The police or schools cannot solve the prob...

Gordon Prentice | 476 c941 (Link to this contribution) In his list of seven points, the Minister did not mention metal-detecting equipment, which was suppo...

Lord Coaker | 476 c940-1 (Link to this contribution) Again, that is a perfectly reasonable point to make. Indeed, the young people whom I met this mornin...

Bob Russell | 476 c941 (Link to this contribution) Welcome though that is, will the Minister confirm that knife crime is three times more prevalent in ...

Lord Coaker | 476 c941 (Link to this contribution) I shall see if I can find out the answer to that question before the end of the debate; I could not ...

Lord Coaker | 476 c941-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has consistently made the point well that knife crime is much more prevalent than...

Lord Coaker | 476 c938 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered that matter of knife crime." This is a very important...

Speaker | 476 c938 (Link to this contribution) Before we start the debate, I must ask Members to be careful in any reference that they make to spec...

David Evennett | 476 c938-9 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with the Minister's opening comment that the great majority of young people are law-...

Lord Coaker | 476 c938 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has worked extremely hard with her local community and local police to deal with some...

Karen Buck | 476 c938 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that many young people, sadly and foolishly, carry weapons because they ar...

Lord Coaker | 476 c939 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely accept that an advertising campaign is not sufficient on its own, but an advertising ca...

Lord Coaker | 476 c943 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and that is my point about the fact that we cannot just have one focus in tackling the prob...

Simon Hughes | 476 c943 (Link to this contribution) I think that the Minister and others accept that all the evidence shows that the increase in the num...

Lord Coaker | 476 c943 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and that is what we have tried to do. Our youth crime action plan, which will be published ...

Lord Coaker | 476 c942 (Link to this contribution) If I am to do justice to my hon. Friend's question, I probably ought to look into the matter and wri...

Kelvin Hopkins | 476 c942 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to focus on the problem of knife crime among young people, but there is anot...

Lord Coaker | 476 c942 (Link to this contribution) According to our understanding, people are released halfway through the sentence if they present no ...

Philip Hollobone | 476 c942-3 (Link to this contribution) We are in danger of isolating knife crime and of trying to treat it on its own, but I suspect that t...

Lord Coaker | 476 c942 (Link to this contribution) I am eating into everybody else's time, but of course I give way.

Julian Lewis | 476 c942 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way. Obviously it sends a good signal to society when a maximum sent...

Lord Redwood | 476 c946 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an extremely important point. Does he agree that if the Government are thin...

James Brokenshire | 476 c945-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, which I shall come to later in my speech. How we tackle the...

Andrew Love | 476 c943-4 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to my hon. Friend for not being here at the start of the debate. I congratulate the Prim...

Lord Coaker | 476 c944 (Link to this contribution) That is an extremely important point, and we need to look at that research. We also need to understa...

Speaker | 476 c944 (Link to this contribution) Order.

James Brokenshire | 476 c944-5 (Link to this contribution) The scourge of knife crime has touched the lives of too many families across the country. It is impo...

Simon Hughes | 476 c945 (Link to this contribution) I do not dissent from much that the hon. Gentleman says, but does he accept that some youngsters who...

James Brokenshire | 476 c945 (Link to this contribution) There needs to be a presumption that such matters should be dealt with by the court. The culture of ...

David Evennett | 476 c945 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful case, and I am listening with great interest. Is he aware that e...

James Brokenshire | 476 c946 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an important point, which is why there is a limit to the use of wands and...

James Brokenshire | 476 c947-8 (Link to this contribution) The issue is unlawful knife-carrying. The law is quite specific: one must not have unlawful purposes...

Dawn Butler | 476 c947 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes some powerful points on knife-carrying and what the police have to do. I wo...

Tobias Ellwood | 476 c948 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my hon. Friend and apologise for joining this important debate late; unfortuna...

James Brokenshire | 476 c946 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. Although I was not able to attend his Select Comm...

Keith Vaz | 476 c946 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to raise all the points that he has. He has obviously not had the chance...

James Brokenshire | 476 c947 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on minimum prices. We should look at below-cost sales, but al...

Kelvin Hopkins | 476 c947 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support the theme of raising the price of cheap alcohol, but does the hon. Gentleman acce...

Philip Hollobone | 476 c948 (Link to this contribution) The statistics that my hon. Friend has given about the number of young people who feel unsafe in the...

James Brokenshire | 476 c948 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. We must deal with offending early enough and effectively enou...

Keith Vaz | 476 c950-1 (Link to this contribution) I was not aware of that. As always, my hon. Friend is campaigning on youth affairs with much passion...

Dawn Butler | 476 c950 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) has raised a valuable point. I hav...

Keith Vaz | 476 c950 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to accept that suggestion. I shall have to put it to other members of the Home Affair...

Simon Hughes | 476 c950 (Link to this contribution) I do not dissent at all from what the right hon. Gentleman has said. Does he agree that things can b...

Keith Vaz | 476 c949-50 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hornchurch (James Brokenshire). We served toge...

James Brokenshire | 476 c948-9 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress, as I am getting into injury time. We fully recognise that the crimina...

Tobias Ellwood | 476 c951 (Link to this contribution) As usual, the right hon. Gentleman is making a powerful argument, and about something in which he ha...

Simon Hughes | 476 c952 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make what might seem a slightly strange and counterintuitive point. It has been put...

Keith Vaz | 476 c951-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is far too generous with his compliments, which I do not deserve. Owing to our ca...

Kelvin Hopkins | 476 c952 (Link to this contribution) The comments of the hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) are very interesti...

Keith Vaz | 476 c952 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point that I have not thought about before—trust him to come...

Keith Vaz | 476 c952-3 (Link to this contribution) I take my hon. Friend's point. My penultimate point concerns the stakeholders. On Tuesday, we took ...

Tobias Ellwood | 476 c953 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is making an extremely valid point. However, as with the issue of the sharp...

Tom Brake | 476 c954-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz), who leads the Home...

Dawn Butler | 476 c956-7 (Link to this contribution) No, it is absolutely a good idea to use technology to speed up the process. I am concerned, however,...

Keith Vaz | 476 c956 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend disagree with the giving out of hand-held machines to the police as a way of spe...

Dawn Butler | 476 c955-6 (Link to this contribution) This debate is very important. In my constituency knife crime has almost remained stable. In 1997, t...

Tobias Ellwood | 476 c959-60 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and appreciate being able to catch your eye. Again, I apol...

Speaker | 476 c959 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Member for Bournemouth, East (Mr. Ellwood) will not find it intimidating if I i...

David Evennett | 476 c958-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome today's debate and the rational and reasonable way in which it has been conducted. I pay t...

Bob Russell | 476 c957-8 (Link to this contribution) Today's debate is called a topical debate, but knife crime has been growing year on year for at leas...

Jeremy Wright | 476 c960 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to my hon. Friend and to the House for arriving even later for this debate than he did. ...

Lord Coaker | 476 c961 (Link to this contribution) This has been a good and important debate. One thing that I have taken from it is that none of the h...

Bob Russell | 476 c961 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can remind the Minister that his concluding comment to the Home Affairs Committee on Tuesd...

James Brokenshire | 476 c948 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes his point very well. The real question is why people feel they need to carry kn...

Lord Coaker | 476 c961-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that—it now seems clear that I will indeed be coming back. The seriou...

Tobias Ellwood | 476 c960-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful argument. It is difficult for parliamentarians or the Government to ...

Andrew Love | 476 c948 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Kelvin Hopkins | 476 c939 (Link to this contribution) Just a year ago, my constituent, Police Constable Jon Henry, was stabbed to death. He was a fine pol...

Keith Vaz | 476 c953-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and he brings me on to my last point. I noticed, Mr. Deputy ...

Subjects

Crime Homicide Police Offensive weapons Voluntary organisations Young people

Contains statistics

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