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Mobile Phones: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with technology companies on (a) strengthening protections to make stolen mobile phones harder for criminals to reactivate and (b) sharing device identifiers with polic

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
16 Jun 2026
Target answer date
18 Jun 2026
Answer
29 Jun 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with technology companies on (a) strengthening protections to make stolen mobile phones harder for criminals to reactivate and (b) sharing device identifiers with polic

  2. 18 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    Home Office Ministers and officials regularly engage with technology companies, policing and other parters to explore solutions to tackle mobile phone theft, including strengthening device protections and improving the sharing of data with law enforcement...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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