Oral QuestionDepartment for Education

If she will make an assessment of the adequacy of local authorities' oversight of the education and well-being of children who are home-schooled.

Tabled: 4 December 2017Answered: 11 December 2017

Asked by

Wera Hobhouse

Liberal DemocratBath

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Education

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention (Dame Diana Johnson)

The Government are determined to act to ensure that people feel safe on our streets. On 6 February the Home Secretary brought together law enforcement agencies and representatives of the mobile phone industry to discuss what more could be done to break the business model of mobile phone theft, and to bring about stronger collaboration across those agencies to crack down on the criminal networks that are operating in this trade.