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HANSARDKnife CrimeMy right hon. Friend makes an important point about the need to ensure that everything is being done throughout the United Kingdom, including our capital city, to deploy as many…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeFirst, let me thank the right hon. Gentleman for the work that he does, in the taskforce and elsewhere, in combating and helping to combat serious violence. He is right about the…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeThe hon. and learned Lady rightly points to Scotland and its own experience. It is important in tackling serious violence that we learn lessons from across the UK, and indeed the…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI thank my right hon. Friend for all his work, particularly through the serious violence taskforce, which he regularly attends. He made an important point about being led by…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI welcome the right hon. Lady’s comments. I do believe that the action that we are taking is the right action, but I am also very open-minded about considering what further action…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeMy right hon. Friend speaks with great knowledge of this issue, and I welcome the work that he and his Select Committee have done. Like the hon. Member for Manchester Central…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeThe hon. Gentleman, like other hon. Members, is right to raise the issue of resources. I have mentioned the increase in resources in this year’s policing settlement. When it comes…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI agree with the hon. Gentleman about the importance of this issue and the need to work across Government. He asked about social media and the way in which some parts of it…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeFirst, I would be very happy to meet the hon. Gentleman. He is right to highlight what he has seen in his area. Recently, I visited one of the leading hospitals in south London…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeAs I have mentioned, the increase in police resources this year is a record increase. It will take total police resourcing to approximately £14 billion, and the increase is the…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeResponding to the increase in serious violence requires a sustained effort, with action that needs to happen now, building on the initiatives I have already set out, and…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI thank the hon. Lady for her questions. She started, quite correctly, by talking about how the House is united in its grief with regard to all the deaths that we have seen,…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI mentioned earlier that serious violence and the priority of tackling it was discussed in Cabinet in the past few weeks, and the matter is being taken seriously in every…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeThe Mayor of London is an important partner in this, and he is a member of the serious violence taskforce. We do not have 10 years to deal with this, of course not. There are…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeWhen the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Lord Hogan-Howe, speaks, it is important that we listen. I have great respect for him and for others who have served in our…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeChanges were made to the sentencing regime in 2015, but it is right that, when we consider the responses to the rise in serious violence and, especially, the tragic deaths that…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI hear what the hon. Lady says very clearly, and I am listening carefully. I also grew up in a place that, sadly, had lots of gangs and crime, and no one wants to see that in any…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeMy hon. Friend raises another important issue on the role that social media might be playing in spreading serious violence. Late last year, I provided £1.4 million of funding for…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right when he talks of the tragic deaths, lives being cut short, all those opportunities that are forever gone and the impact on those…04 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI welcome the announcement by Warwickshire police. On other resources, a vital one that I mentioned earlier is support for organisations, mainly community organisations, to tackle…04 Mar 2019