Question follow-through · 29045
Organised Crime: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of organised criminal gangs on rural crime levels; and what steps she is taking to disrupt those activities.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 21 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of organised criminal gangs on rural crime levels; and what steps she is taking to disrupt those activities.
14 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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21 Sept 2026
Answer published
Rural crime can have a devastating impact on rural communities and the agricultural sector. Rural crime is not recorded as a distinct category within police recorded crime, so it is not possible to produce a single, centrally verified assessment of its sc...
Official data retrieved 25 Sept 2026.
Later records
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