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.
About this written question
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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
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.
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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