Question follow-through · 31563
Burglary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with the police to help reduce the number of burglaries.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 28 Feb 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with the police to help reduce the number of burglaries.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Feb 2025
Answer published
We recognise the profound impact burglary can have on individuals and the wider community. For too long a culture has been allowed to develop whereby victims of burglary believe if they report what has happened, no one will come and nothing will be done.T...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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