Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent the sale of stolen goods on classified advertising and auctioning websites.

The Home Office is working with the National Police Chief’s Council lead for acquisitive crime and other partners at the national level to look at whether there is more to be done to tackle the markets for stolen goods to make products less attractive to thieves. The work is covering a number of different elements including strengthening identity and due diligence checks carried out by second hand traders and agreeing a national code of conduct, which aims to protect both businesses and the public from inadvertently buying stolen goods.