Written Question·Home Office·UIN 83765

Mobile Phones: Theft

Tabled: 21 October 2025

Answered: 30 October 2025

Question

Mark Pritchard

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, ?if she will take steps with mobile phone companies to introduce a (a) single and (b) central emergency telephone number paid for by mobile phone (i) operators and (ii) manufacturers to allow reportin

Answer

Sarah Jones

The Home Secretary and Policing Minister are determined to take the strongest possible action to reduce the number of phone thefts in London and elsewhere across the country.This is a crime that causes significant distress to victims and fuels wider crimi...

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