Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he plans to take tackle cargo theft from HGVs.

The Government is committed to tackling all forms of acquisitive crime. The Minister for Policing and the Fire Service chaired the first meeting of a new Taskforce on 15 January 2019 which brings together the police, industry and others to look at what more can be done to tackle vehicle theft.