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The UK Home Office has been criticised for underestimating the number of zombie knives and machetes surrendered during a recent amnesty leading up to a ban. The legislation had been introduced by the previous Conservative government and was designed to reduce violent and serious crime. The definition of zombie knives that had already been proscribed was widened to include any knives that are 8in (20cm) long, if they had other specific features.
BBC research suggests that the government may have offered some owners more in compensation than their knives had cost them. The Home Office had opened a month-long surrender and compensation scheme before the legislation banning the knives came into law on 24 September 2024. The scheme offered to pay retailers and individuals a minimum of £10 per knife for hand ins of three or more.
An impact assessment conducted by the Home Office indicated that it thought owners would surrender 472 blades, resulting in total compensation of approximately £14,000. However, partial data from a number of police forces in England and Wales shows that at least 39,000 knives were surrendered.
Despite the success of the amnesty, Labour MP for Luton North, Sarah Owen, queried the government’s impact assessment for the scheme. She said that the government had “questions to answer on how they decided that compensation was going to be allocated and to who”, and pointed out that the initiative was clearly not designed for the quantity of knives that were handed in
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