Home Office written question – answered at on 5 November 2019.
Graham Jones
Chair, Committees on Arms Export Controls, Chair, Committees on Arms Export Controls, Chair, Committees on Arms Export Controls, Chair, Committees on Arms Export Controls, Chair, Committees on Arms Export Controls, Chair, Committees on Arms Export Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps police forces are taking to improve the recording of thefts of catalytic converters from motor vehicles.
Kit Malthouse
The Minister of State, Home Department
The Government recognises the distress and disruption that metal theft, including the theft of catalytic converters, can cause.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes police recorded crime data on metal theft offences annually which can be found here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/focusonpropertycrimeappendixtables. Whilst the ONS data does not separate out theft of catalytic converters, this would be recorded under non-infrastructure related incidents.
We continue to work closely with the police, industry and others to understand what more we can do to tackle vehicle-related theft.
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