Motor Vehicles: Theft
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded offences of theft from a motor vehicle involved commercial freight vehicles in each of the last five years; what estimate she has made of the value of goods stolen in those offences; and how many resulted in (i) arrests, (ii) charges and (iii) convictions.
Answered by Sarah Jones
The Home Office collects information on the number of notifiable offences, and their investigative outcomes, recorded by the police in England and Wales. This includes offences of Theft from a Motor Vehicle. However, we do not hold data on the types of vehicles involved in these offences.
In September 2025, the Home Office introduced a six-month pilot scheme implementing a ‘freight crime’ flag across two police forces – Cambridgeshire and Warwickshire. However, the resulting data generated from this pilot has not yet been quality assured by the Home Office.
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