{"value":{"id":1237892,"askingMemberId":4378,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2020-09-25T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2020-09-30T00:00:00","uin":"95653","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of violent crimes that involved the use of a (i) firearm and (ii) knife in (A) Coventry, (B) the West Midlands and (C) England in each of the last five years.","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4495,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2020-10-05T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Home Office collects data on the number of offences recorded by the police involving the use of firearms and knives or sharp instruments in England and Wales at the Police Force Area level only. The requested information is given in the attached table for West Midlands and England.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Crimes of Violence: Firearms and Knives","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1237892","method":"GET"}]}