Question follow-through · 99461

Mobile Phones: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle phone theft in Surrey Heath constituency.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
15 Dec 2025
Answer
5 Jan 2026 · 25 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle phone theft in Surrey Heath constituency.

  2. 15 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    Mobile phone theft causes significant distress to victims and fuels wider criminality, and the Government is determined to reduce it.Our aim is to disrupt, design-out and disincentivise mobile phone theft. We are working closely with law enforcement partn...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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