Stone: Theft

(asked on 25th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to re-establish the Metal Theft Taskforce with an extended remit to include stone theft.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 6th September 2019

We provided over £6 million of funding for the police-led Metal Theft Taskforce to help ensure the reforms to tackle metal theft introduced by the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 were embedded within the normal business of police forces and local authorities.

The Taskforce was not intended to be a long-term arrangement and disbanded in 2014 following the successful implementation of the 2013 Act.
The most recent statistics show that recorded levels of metal theft offences in March 2018 are still 73% lower compared with March 2013.

We continue to work with the police, industry, local authorities and others on this issue and on acquisitive crime more generally.

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