Question follow-through · 80158

Crime Prevention: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle rural crime.

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
10 Oct 2025
Target answer date
14 Oct 2025
Answer
20 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle rural crime.

  2. 14 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 20 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    Rural crime can have devastating consequences for countryside communities and the agricultural sector. Under our Safer Streets Mission reforms, rural communities will be safeguarded, with tougher measures to clamp down on equipment theft, anti-social beha...

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