Question follow-through · 94507

Vans: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring police forces to record thefts (a) from and (b) of light commercial vehicles as distinct crime categories to enable accurate nat

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Home Office
Tabled
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
27 Nov 2025
Answer
3 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 25 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring police forces to record thefts (a) from and (b) of light commercial vehicles as distinct crime categories to enable accurate nat

  2. 27 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office has access to a monthly extract of data from the Police National Computer (PNC) which provides additional intelligence information on the type of vehicles stolen in England and Wales. Such data already enables the monitoring of offences in...

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