You asked

Please provide data on knife crime in England and Wales over the last 5 years.

We said

Thank you for your request for information on knife crime.

We publish figures for selected police recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument in Offences involving the use of weapons: data tables. Tables 14 and 15 provide data back to the year ending March 2011.

If you have any crime-related queries in future, you can email CrimeStatistics@ons.gov.uk and we will endeavour to help.