Question follow-through · 82728

Theft: Agricultural Machinery

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle the theft of farm machinery in rural areas.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 16 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 20 Oct 2025
Answer: 24 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

16 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle the theft of farm machinery in rural areas.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2025
Answer published
We will be implementing the Equipment Theft Act, which is aimed at preventing equipment being stolen, making it harder for criminals to sell on stolen vehicles and equipment and assisting the police with identifying the owner.We published the Government R...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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