Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the use of drones in connection with rural crime.

The Home Office has not made an assessment of the use of drones in connection with crime committed in rural areas. Overall, people in rural areas are less likely to be the victims of crime compared to those in urban areas, and the election of Police and Crime Commissioners has given all communities a much stronger voice in determining how police resources are allocated to tackle the crimes that matter most to them.