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1136407

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date	02/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Lead: Theft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many churches in England have had thefts of lead in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Alderdice
uin	HL16857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the distress and disruption that metal theft can cause, not only to businesses but also local communities of which churches are an important part.</p><p>The Home Office collects information from police forces on the number of metal theft incidents. These data are published annually by the Office for National Statistics and can be found in the ‘Property Crime tables’ here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/focusonpropertycrimeappendixtables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/focusonpropertycrimeappendixtables</a>.</p><p>The data show whether or not the theft was infrastructure or non-infrastructure related. Data are available for the year ending March 2013 to March 2018, however they are not broken down to show how many incidents were related to theft of lead from church roofs or the method or country of disposal for the metal stolen.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL16858 HL16861 question first answered 16/07/2019 16:16:21 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name propertycrimetables2017-18(1).xls title Property Crime Tables 2017-18
tabling member	3478 label Biography information for Lord Alderdice

1136408

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Lead: Theft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the value of the lead stolen from churches in England in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Alderdice
uin	HL16858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the distress and disruption that metal theft can cause, not only to businesses but also local communities of which churches are an important part.</p><p>The Home Office collects information from police forces on the number of metal theft incidents. These data are published annually by the Office for National Statistics and can be found in the ‘Property Crime tables’ here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/focusonpropertycrimeappendixtables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/focusonpropertycrimeappendixtables</a>.</p><p>The data show whether or not the theft was infrastructure or non-infrastructure related. Data are available for the year ending March 2013 to March 2018, however they are not broken down to show how many incidents were related to theft of lead from church roofs or the method or country of disposal for the metal stolen.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL16857 HL16861 question first answered 16/07/2019 16:16:21 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name propertycrimetables2017-18(1).xls title Property Crime Tables 2017-18
tabling member	3478 label Biography information for Lord Alderdice

1136409

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Lead: Theft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what were the estimated replacement costs for lead stolen from churches in England in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Alderdice
uin	HL16859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government are not party to information on the replacement costs for lead stolen from churches in England, as this is the responsibility of local congregations. We have not had discussions with Historic England regarding the replacement of lead stolen from church roofs, nor the use of alternative materials in their replacement.</p><p> </p><p>Government currently provides support to churches throughout the UK via the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme which is presently funded to a maximum of £42m per annum. Established in 2001, the scheme provides grants towards VAT paid on repairs, maintenance and alterations to listed buildings that are used principally as places of worship.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde grouped question UIN HL16862 question first answered 12/07/2019 11:06:55 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	3478 label Biography information for Lord Alderdice

1136410

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Lead: Theft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many convictions for theft of lead from churches in England have been recorded in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Alderdice
uin	HL16860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>To identify whether theft convictions were specifically related to theft of lead from churches in England would require manual searching of court records, which would be of disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 10/07/2019 13:26:09 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3478 label Biography information for Lord Alderdice

1136411

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Lead: Theft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the methods of disposal of stolen lead; and of whether such disposal took place in (1) the UK, or (2) elsewhere in Europe.
tabling member printed	Lord Alderdice
uin	HL16861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the distress and disruption that metal theft can cause, not only to businesses but also local communities of which churches are an important part.</p><p>The Home Office collects information from police forces on the number of metal theft incidents. These data are published annually by the Office for National Statistics and can be found in the ‘Property Crime tables’ here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/focusonpropertycrimeappendixtables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/focusonpropertycrimeappendixtables</a>.</p><p>The data show whether or not the theft was infrastructure or non-infrastructure related. Data are available for the year ending March 2013 to March 2018, however they are not broken down to show how many incidents were related to theft of lead from church roofs or the method or country of disposal for the metal stolen.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL16857 HL16858 question first answered 16/07/2019 16:16:21 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name propertycrimetables2017-18(1).xls title Property Crime Tables 2017-18
tabling member	3478 label Biography information for Lord Alderdice

1136412

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Lead: Theft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with English Heritage about the replacement of lead stolen from church roofs; and whether they raised in any such discussions the option to replace such lead with materials of a similar appearance but less value.
tabling member printed	Lord Alderdice
uin	HL16862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government are not party to information on the replacement costs for lead stolen from churches in England, as this is the responsibility of local congregations. We have not had discussions with Historic England regarding the replacement of lead stolen from church roofs, nor the use of alternative materials in their replacement.</p><p> </p><p>Government currently provides support to churches throughout the UK via the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme which is presently funded to a maximum of £42m per annum. Established in 2001, the scheme provides grants towards VAT paid on repairs, maintenance and alterations to listed buildings that are used principally as places of worship.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde grouped question UIN HL16859 question first answered 12/07/2019 11:06:55 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	3478 label Biography information for Lord Alderdice