Bicycles: Theft
(asked on 3rd September 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many bikes available through public bike hire schemes have been reported stolen in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 11th September 2018
The Home Office collects data on police recorded crime including theft or unauthorised taking of a pedal cycle. These are published quarterly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The latest figures, for the year ending March 2018, can be accessed here:
It is not possible from these data to identify whether or not the pedal cycle was available through a public hire scheme.