Question follow-through · 40789

Business and Law and Order

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to improve collaboration between businesses and law enforcement agencies.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
26 Mar 2025
Answer
1 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to improve collaboration between businesses and law enforcement agencies.

  2. 26 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office works closely with businesses across a wide range of shared interests and priorities, from prevention of fraud and cybercrime to tackling the sale of dangerous knives. A particular focus of this cooperation over the past year has been shop...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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