Written Question·Home Office·UIN 121939

Crime: Rural Areas

Tabled: 18 March 2026
Answered: 27 March 2026

Question

James Naish

LabourRushcliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve the recording and reporting of rural crime as a distinct category within national policing frameworks.

Answer

Sarah Jones
There is no distinct offence category or grouping that captures rural crimes separately from other offences. Currently any centrally held data on crimes recorded by the police and the investigative outcomes of crimes will not be broken down into rural cri...

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