Written Question·Home Office·UIN 768

Motor Vehicles: Theft

Tabled: 18 July 2024
Answered: 26 July 2024

Question

Sonia Kumar

LabourDudley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the use of keyless theft equipment in vehicle-related crimes; if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of existing legislation for tacklin

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
Estimate from the Crime Survey of England and Wales (for the year ending March 2023) showed the two most common methods of entry in theft of vehicles in England and Wales are “Offender manipulated signal from remote locking device” (40%) and “Offender use...

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