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1136407

	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 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

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

1524286

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2022
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Metropolitan Police on lead theft from buildings such as churches.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	67151
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office engages at a national level with the National Police Chiefs’ Council, police forces and law enforcement agencies, and other stakeholders to understand the national picture on metal theft, including gas copper pipe theft, and what can be done to tackle it. This includes supporting the work of the National Police Chiefs’ Council Metal Crime Steering Group led by the NPCC lead for metal theft, ACC Charlie Doyle. The Metropolitan Police is represented on this group.</p><p>The Home Office provided £177,000 seed corn funding in the 2020/21 financial year to establish the National Infrastructure Crime Reduction Partnership. The Partnership ensures national co-ordination of policing and law enforcement partners to tackle metal theft. The Partnership, facilitates data and intelligence sharing to partners to target offenders, understand emerging trends, and implement crime prevention measures. The partnership has provided training to over 1,600 police officers and other law enforcement agencies in tackling metal theft.</p><p>We have also provided funding to Historic England for a project to mark lead from church roofs and explore how to best prevent and investigate theft and illicit disposal of metal from historic sites.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 67150 question first answered 27/10/2022 15:02:40 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West