Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase detection rates for (a) anti-social behaviour, (b) burglary and (c) criminal damage.

The Government is clear that these crimes, when they take place, should be reported to the police so that they can be investigated appropriately. It is for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, as operational leaders and elected local representatives, to decide how best to respond to individual crimes and local crime priorities but to help ensure that the police have the resources they need to do so, we are recruiting 20,000 officers over the next three years.

The Home Secretary meets regularly with her Cabinet colleagues to discuss government priorities, which include crime and anti-social behaviour.