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Mobile Phones: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to help prevent smart phone theft.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 26 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 3 Mar 2025
Answer: 7 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to help prevent smart phone theft.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Mar 2025
Answer published
Set against soaring levels of snatch thefts and pickpocketing, crimes which often involve theft of mobile phones and which for too long have been neglected and not been effectively tackled, the Home Secretary recently brought together police, the National...

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