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1483504

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Pets: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of pet thefts in the last 12 months compared to the 12 months prior.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Tom Hunt
uin	26023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p>Information on the scale of pet theft was gathered as part of the recent Pet Theft Taskforce and evidence included data from 33 police forces in England and Wales on trends in reported dog thefts from 2015 to 2020 and is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pet-theft-taskforce-report/pet-theft-taskforce-report" target="_blank">Pet theft taskforce report - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>The Pet Theft Taskforce estimated that around 2,000 dog thefts were reported to the police each year (2019 and 2020) in England and Wales. The Pet Theft Taskforce recommended exploring options which would lead to improving the consistency of recording and collection data on pet thefts by all police forces across England and Wales and government across the entirety of the criminal justice system.</p><p>The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) lead for acquisitive crime has written to all forces asking them to ensure details about stolen dogs are recorded consistently. Operation Opal (the NPCC’s national intelligence unit focused on serious organised acquisitive crime) has suggested that forces across England and Wales are seeing a fall in the number of these crimes, and we are pressing for a further update on the data.</p><p>The Government is acting on the recommendations of the Task Force which includes introducing a new dog abduction offence which has been added by the Government to the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill, bolstering the raft of measures it already includes to further protect pets, livestock and kept wild animals.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/07/2022 15:33:56 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4771 label Biography information for Tom Hunt

1458008

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Pets: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the data for dog and cat thefts in each police force area in England and Wales for every year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	154254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the distress pet theft causes and are committed to preventing these cruel crimes</p><p>The Home Office does publish data on police recorded theft offences as part of the quarterly ONS ‘Crime in England and Wales’ statistics, but it does not separately identify the number of thefts for dogs and cats.</p><p>However, information on the scale of pet theft was gathered as part of the Pet Theft Taskforce, which engaged a number of key organisations and experts in the field to shine a light on the existing evidence.</p><p>The evidence included aggregated data from 33 police forces in England and Wales on trends in reported dog thefts since 2015 and is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pet-theft-taskforce-report/pet-theft-taskforce-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pet-theft-taskforce-report/pet-theft-taskforce-report</a>.</p><p>As part of the taskforce we are working with the police to ensure these thefts are recorded in a consistent way and readily identifiable within forces’ information management systems.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/04/2022 14:29:01 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1400054

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Pets: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of pet theft were reported to the police in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	98319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>Information on the scale pet theft was gathered as part of the recent Pet Theft Taskforce which engaged a number of key organisations and experts in the field to shine a light on the existing evidence, considered the issue from end to end, and set out a package of specific recommendations to tackle this crime.</p><p>The evidence included data from 33 police forces in England and Wales on trends in reported dog thefts since 2015 and is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pet-theft-taskforce-report/pet-theft-taskforce-report" target="_blank">Pet theft taskforce report - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The Government is acting on the recommendations of the Task Force which includes introducing a new dog abduction offence which has been added by the Government to the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill, bolstering the raft of measures it already includes to further protect pets, livestock and kept wild animals.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 10/01/2022 16:25:24 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1345730

registered interest
date	12/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Pets: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of trends in the level of pet theft since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	31297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2021 answer text <p>We recognise the distress pet theft causes and are committed to doing more to prevent these cruel crimes. The Government has been assembling evidence on pet theft as part of the work of the Pet Theft Taskforce, launched 8 May, and this will be published in due course.</p><p>The Taskforce is considering the issue from end to end, including causes, prevention, reporting, enforcement and prosecution.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 20/07/2021 09:21:12 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1327444

registered interest
date	24/05/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Pets: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on increasing the penalty for people who are convicted of pet theft.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	6302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2021 answer text <p>Following discussions between myself (the Minister for Crime and Policing), the Home Secretary, and ministerial colleagues in the Ministry of Justice and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Government, Pet Theft Taskforce will:</p><ul><li>Work with police, law enforcement, and experts to understand and tackle pet theft.</li><li>Consider the issue from end to end, including causes, prevention, reporting, enforcement and prosecution.</li><li>Make clear and timely recommendations on ways to reduce pet theft.</li></ul><p>Further information about the Pet Theft Taskforce, including its full terms of reference, can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/taskforce-launched-to-investigate-reported-rise-in-pet-thefts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/taskforce-launched-to-investigate-reported-rise-in-pet-thefts</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 27/05/2021 16:21:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1316827

registered interest
date	20/05/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Pets: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Pet Theft Taskforce is taking to tackle the challenges of gathering data on pet theft from police forces, including the (a) inconsistent data collection and recording methods and (b) lack of specific data collection on pet theft.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Siobhan Baillie
uin	4741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/05/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises the distress pet theft causes will consider the evidence and what more could be done to prevent these cruel crimes. That is why we launched the Pet Theft Taskforce on 8 May. Among the activities that the Taskforce will be undertaking is work with police and other law enforcement partners is to understand the scale of pet theft.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/05/2021 11:57:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4847 label Biography information for Siobhan Baillie

1313058

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Pets: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in pet theft in 2020 and 2021; and what steps her Department is taking to tackle that crime.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises the distress pet theft causes will consider the evidence and what more could be done to prevent these cruel crimes. That is why we launched the Pet Theft Taskforce on 8 May. The Taskforce will:</p><ul><li>Work with police, law enforcement, and experts to understand and tackle pet theft.</li><li>Consider the issue from end to end, including causes, prevention, reporting, enforcement and prosecution.</li><li>Make clear and timely recommendations on ways to reduce pet theft.</li></ul><p>Further information about the Pet Theft Taskforce, including its full terms of reference, can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/taskforce-launched-to-investigate-reported-rise-in-pet-thefts</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 17/05/2021 14:11:38 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1307425

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Pets: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to (a) collect data on the increase in pet theft during the covid-19 lockdown and (b) help tackle the increase in that crime.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	179720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government is working with the police and others and will consider the evidence and what more could be done to prevent pet theft.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 15/04/2021 14:18:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1306540

registered interest
date	25/03/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Pets: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of establishing a national (a) task force and (b) strategy to tackle pet theft.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	176056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2021 answer text <p>Further to the reply I provided to my Hon. Friend’s question on 22 March, I can assure him the Government is working with the police and others and will consider the evidence and what more could be done to prevent pet theft.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 19/04/2021 15:54:35 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1304454

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Pets: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps her Department is taking to reduce pet theft.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	913720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises the distress pet theft causes.</p><p>It is for Police and Crime Commissioners and Chief Constables to determine how to tackle this crime. The Government’s role is ensuring police forces have sufficient resources to respond to the challenges they face.</p><p>We have committed to recruit an extra 20,000 police officers by March 2023, with over 6,000 already in place.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/03/2021 16:35:49 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans