Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how the enforcement rules preventing cash payments for scrap metal might be improved.

It is an offence under the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 to buy scrap metal for cash and this is an important part of the regulatory regime for the scrap metal industry. We shall continue to work with the police and other partners through the National Metal Theft Working Group to see what further action can be taken to deal with those rogue dealers who flout the law and pay cash for scrap metal.