Theft: Metals

(asked on 23rd November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding has been allocated to each constabulary to tackle scrap metal theft and enforcement of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Sarah Newton Portrait
Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 28th November 2016

The Government is not providing funding specifically to police forces to tackle metal theft. We provide funding for individual police budgets and Police and Crime Commissioners determine according to local priorities how this funding is allocated to tackle crime. However, the Government did provide additional funding of £6 million in total to the National Metal Theft Taskforce between January 2012 and September 2014 to support the implementation of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013. The legislation is proving to be effective and in 2015-16 metal theft offences reduced by 38%, according to the Office for National Statistics in their statistical bulletin Focus on property crime: year ending March 2016 published on 24 November 2016.

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