Question follow-through · 9756
Crime: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that police forces remain equipped with specialist local knowledge to tackle rural crime.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that police forces remain equipped with specialist local knowledge to tackle rural crime.
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jun 2026
Answer published
We recognise that theft of farming equipment and livestock can have a serious financial impact on victims, as well as wider effects on rural businesses and communities, which is why we are focused on preventing these crimes and improving the recovery of s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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