Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to amend the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Bill to include all agricultural vehicles.

The Equipment Theft (Prevention) Bill will help prevent the theft of All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) such as quad bikes, by introducing a power for the Secretary of State to make regulations which provide for the requirement to fit immobilisers, forensically mark these vehicles and register the owner’s details on an appropriate property database.

There are currently no plans to include all agricultural vehicles. However, the provisions could be extended and applied to other agricultural equipment in the future through secondary legislation, where evidence shows this is necessary.