Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the number of charges for burglary.

This Government recognises the devastating impact burglary has on communities and businesses. That is why we are recruiting 20,000 extra police officers and why we established the Safer Streets Fund to help prevent these crimes from happening in the first place, supporting the deployment of solutions such as home security, increased streetlighting and CCTV in high crime areas.

We are also taking a range of measures to tackle reoffending, including the tagging scheme for neighbourhood crime offenders released on licence, and work led by the Residential Burglary Taskforce, driving forward the sharing of best practice about effective police investigations.