Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of reported burglaries in (a) the London borough of Barnet and (b) England.

The Government recognises the particularly invasive nature of domestic burglary and the impact crimes can have on victims. That is why we are committed to cutting crime, keeping our streets safe and restoring public confidence in the criminal justice system.

The Home Office collects data from police forces on police recorded crime, broken down by Police Force Area and Community Safety Partnership Area, including the London borough of Barnet. Data is not collected at parliamentary constituency level.

The latest data, including the number of recorded offences of Burglary can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables.

Alongside ongoing work with the police, industry leads and partners to examine what more can be done to prevent crime; on the 28 January the Government launched the second round of the Safer Streets Fund. The Fund now totalling £45 million, supports communities in England and Wales that are disproportionately affected by crimes such as domestic burglary to implement well evidenced crime prevention initiatives, such as improved street lighting and home security.

In order to tackle levels of crime, both in London Constituencies and across the rest of England and Wales, and to help ensure the police have the resources they need, the Government has funded an additional 20,000 police officers to support the efforts of existing forces and organisations in England and Wales. Specifically, the Metropolitan Police Service has been allocated an additional 1,369 officers in the first year of the police uplift, covering the period to the end of March 2021, however the deployment of these officers is an operational decision for the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.