The data, published by the all-party parliamentary group (on knife crime, showed councils cut their youth services spending on average by 40 per cent over the past three years.
At the same time there was a 68 per cent increase in knife offences recorded by the police in England and Wales.
The rise in offences, from 25,516 from the end of March 2014 to 42,790 to September 2018, came as some local authorities slashed their funding for services such as youth clubs and youth workers by as much as 91 per cent, the APPG said.
The data was drawn from Freedom of Information (FoI) responses from around 70 per cent of 154 councils contacted by the APPG in England.
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