Member

The level of smartphone thefts and the associated crime wave is a blot on Britain, and especially on London. I urge the Minister to agree to our amendments, which seek to ensure that technology companies use technical measures, such as cloud-based blocking and IMEI-linked device locks, to make the resale of stolen mobile phone devices abroad more difficult, and to bring this into effect six months after Royal Assent. Only this action will materially reduce the incidence of phone thefts in the UK. I beg to move.