Question follow-through · 30310

Parcels: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to prevent parcel thieves taking parcels which have already been delivered to people’s homes.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
12 Feb 2025
Answer
18 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to prevent parcel thieves taking parcels which have already been delivered to people’s homes.

  2. 12 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    This Government is committed to reducing crime and restoring public confidence in policing and we are getting on with this through our Safer Streets Mission, including through delivery of a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee. As part of this, each neighbour...

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