Question follow-through · 97457
Freight: Crime Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce incidences of freight crime.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 32 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce incidences of freight crime.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
We fully recognise the serious and growing threat that freight crime poses to businesses, drivers, and the wider economy. This Government is determined to crack down on it. The incidences of freight crime, where criminals rip the sides of lorries and take...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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