Question follow-through · 768
Motor Vehicles: Theft
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the use of keyless theft equipment in vehicle-related crimes; if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of existing legislation for tacklin
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 18 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 26 Jul 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the use of keyless theft equipment in vehicle-related crimes; if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of existing legislation for tacklin
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
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26 Jul 2024
Answer published
Estimate from the Crime Survey of England and Wales (for the year ending March 2023) showed the two most common methods of entry in theft of vehicles in England and Wales are “Offender manipulated signal from remote locking device” (40%) and “Offender use...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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