Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of convictions for pet theft in each year since 2015.

Information on theft offences held by the Ministry of Justice does not identify if a pet, specifically, was stolen. The information may be held on court record but to be able to identify cases in which pets were stolen would require access to individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.

The Ministry of Justice has published information on sentences for offenders convicted for more general theft offences, up to December 2020, available in the ‘Outcomes by Offence’ data tool, here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987715/outcomes-by-offence-2020.xlsx