Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the National Vehicle Crime Working Group last met.

The Government works closely with the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) lead for vehicle crime, the police and motor manufacturers through the National Vehicle Crime Working Group (NVCWG), taking forward a programme of work to prevent and reduce theft of and from vehicles. Through the NVCWG a network of vehicle crime specialists has been established, involving every police force in England and Wales, to ensure better sharing of information and intelligence.

The most recent meeting of the NVCWG took place on 23 June 2022.

The Government is also working closely with the National Infrastructure Crime Reduction Partnership (NICRP) to tackle theft of catalytic converters. The Home Office provided seed corn funding in 2021 to set-up the NICRP, the work of which ensures national co-ordination of policing and law enforcement partners to tackle metal theft, providing training, sharing intelligence to target offenders, and implementing crime prevention measures.