Agriculture: Crime Prevention
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her timeline is for the implementation of regulations to apply forensic marking to new GPS units for use in agricultural and commercial settings.
Answered by Sarah Jones
Equipment theft, including the theft of GPS systems, can have devastating consequences for countryside communities and the agricultural sector.
That is why we are committed to the implementation of the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023 and fully support its intentions to prevent the theft and re-sale of All-Terrain Vehicles, quad bikes and GPS systems.
The legislation will require new ATVs, quad bikes and GPS systems to be forensically marked and registered on an appropriate database. We will introduce the necessary secondary legislation when parliamentary time allows.
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