Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support (a) local authorities and (b) police forces on reducing rates of burglaries and securing homes.

The Government recognises the significant impact invasive crimes such as burglary can have on individuals and the wider community. As we made clear in the Beating Crime Plan, evidence-based and targeted interventions, such as the Safer Streets Fund, underpinned by getting the basics in policing right, lies at the heart of our strategy to reduce these crimes.

The Safer Streets Fund supports police and local authorities investment in street lighting, home security and other measures, to help prevent crimes such as domestic burglary from happening in the first place.

To help ensure the police have the resources they need we committed to recruit 20,000 additional officers by March 2023. Furthermore, we welcome the commitment given by Chief Constables and Commissioners across England and Wales that there should be police attendance at all home burglaries, and are working with police leaders to ensure forces are making their attendance data available to the public.