Written Question·Home Office·UIN 45963

Freight: Crime

Tabled: 17 April 2025
Answered: 29 April 2025

Question

Sarah Edwards

LabourTamworth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the impact on business of freight crime in (a) England and (b) the West Midlands; and if she will undertake an assessment of trends in the level of fre

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
This Government understands the significant and damaging impact freight crime has on businesses and drivers and we are carefully monitoring the increases in its frequency. The experience of cargo theft, where criminals are ripping the sides of lorries and...

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