Written Question·Home Office·UIN 77854

Crime: Rural Areas

Tabled: 16 September 2025
Answered: 13 October 2025

Question

Rachel Gilmour

Liberal DemocratTiverton and Minehead

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of funding for specialised rural crime teams.

Answer

Sarah Jones
Rural crime can also have devastating consequences for countryside communities and the agricultural sector. This financial year we are providing the first Home Office funding since 2023 for the National Rural Crime Unit, a national policing unit which hel...

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