Question follow-through · 31589
Tools: Theft
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Equipment Theft (Protection Act) 2023 will cover tradesperson's tools.
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, whether the Equipment Theft (Protection Act) 2023 will cover tradesperson's tools.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Office for National Statistics publishes estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales on the proportion of theft from vehicle incidents that involved tools being taken as part of a broader breakdown of items stolen. These estimates are availa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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