Question follow-through · 25656

Mobile Phones: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent the export of stolen mobile devices out of the United Kingdom.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
22 Jan 2025
Target answer date
24 Jan 2025
Answer
30 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 22 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent the export of stolen mobile devices out of the United Kingdom.

  2. 24 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Set against soaring levels of snatch thefts and pickpocketing, crimes which commonly involve the theft of mobile phones, a series of meetings have already been held, and we will shortly be holding a Home Office Mobile Phone Theft Summit, drawing together ...

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