Question follow-through · 18018
Mobile Phones: Theft
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the theft of mobile phones.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the theft of mobile phones.
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2024
Answer published
Set against soaring levels of snatch thefts and pickpocketing, crimes which commonly involve the theft of mobile phones, we have announced a Home Office Mobile Phone Theft Summit, drawing together tech companies and law enforcement to see what more can co...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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