{"value":{"id":927658,"memberId":3945,"member":null,"memberRole":"The Secretary of State for the Home Department","uin":"HCWS780","dateMade":"2018-06-20T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","title":"Summary of Consultation Responses on Offensive and Dangerous Weapons","text":"<p>On 14 October 2017 the Government published a public consultation paper on proposals for new legislative measures on offensive and dangerous weapons.</p><p>The proposals included making it a criminal offence for knives purchased online to be delivered to a residential address, making it a criminal offence to possess certain offensive weapons in private and extending the offence of possessing a knife or offensive weapon on school premises to a wider range of educational institutions. Other legislative proposals included amending the offences of threatening with an article with a blade or point or an offensive weapon and updating the definition of a flick knife. The consultation also sought views on making it a criminal offence to sell products containing certain corrosive substances to those under the age of 18 and to possess corrosive substances in a public place, and prohibiting certain large calibre rifles and rapid firing rifles under section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968.</p><p>The consultation closed on 9 December and I am today publishing a summary of the responses that the consultation received. A copy of the summary will be placed in the House Library and will be available on the Gov.uk website.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":4,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":927663,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2018-06-20T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/927658","method":"GET"}]}