Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2020 to Question 120050, what steps she has taken to tackle catalytic converter theft since the National Police Chiefs' problem solving workshop.

We welcome the work which the National Police Chiefs’ Council did to host a problem-solving workshop in November to bring together representatives from the motor industry, policing and Government to discuss what can be done to tackle the theft of catalytic converters.

We are committed to providing funding to set up the National Infrastructure Crime Reduction Partnership, ensuring national co-ordination of policing and law enforcement partners to tackle metal theft. Through this, the partnership has already started sharing intelligence and providing training to police forces, and the partnership will also enable intelligence sharing between police and industry partners such as transport, power, and telecommunications, to target offenders and implement crime prevention measures.