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date	10/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime: Rural Areas
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost to the UK economy of rural crime.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL6352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2023 answer text <p>This Government is committed to driving down rural crime.  We are on target to recruit 20,000 additional officers by March 2023. This is unprecedented and reflects the biggest recruitment drive in decades, and will help ensure the public is better protected, including in rural communities.</p><p> </p><p>To help prevent the theft of agricultural machinery the Government is supporting the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Bill which will require immobilisers and forensic marking to be fitted as standard to all new All-Terrain Vehicles and quad bikes. We are intending to consult on extending the legislation to other agricultural machinery.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of theft offences recorded by the police in England and Wales. However, information on what is stolen is not routinely collected by the Home Office. All data collections are reviewed each year by the Policing Data Requirement Group (PDRG) to ensure that data requested from the police is proportionate to the need for the data and that forces have the technical capabilities to provide the data requested.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has not made an estimate of the of the loss to the UK economy from rural crime or heritage crime. However, the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) estimates that in 2021 rural theft cost the UK £40.5m, based on their insurance claim statistics.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL6353 HL6354 question first answered 21/03/2023 11:44:18 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

1603153

registered interest
date	10/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cultural Heritage: Crime
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what recent estimate they have made of the loss to the UK economy from heritage crime.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL6354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2023 answer text <p>This Government is committed to driving down rural crime.  We are on target to recruit 20,000 additional officers by March 2023. This is unprecedented and reflects the biggest recruitment drive in decades, and will help ensure the public is better protected, including in rural communities.</p><p> </p><p>To help prevent the theft of agricultural machinery the Government is supporting the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Bill which will require immobilisers and forensic marking to be fitted as standard to all new All-Terrain Vehicles and quad bikes. We are intending to consult on extending the legislation to other agricultural machinery.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of theft offences recorded by the police in England and Wales. However, information on what is stolen is not routinely collected by the Home Office. All data collections are reviewed each year by the Policing Data Requirement Group (PDRG) to ensure that data requested from the police is proportionate to the need for the data and that forces have the technical capabilities to provide the data requested.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has not made an estimate of the of the loss to the UK economy from rural crime or heritage crime. However, the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) estimates that in 2021 rural theft cost the UK £40.5m, based on their insurance claim statistics.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL6352 HL6353 question first answered 21/03/2023 11:44:18 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

45487

registered interest
date	26/03/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what development impacts are expected from the use of United Kingdom official development assistanceto purchase part of the agribusiness company Feronia through CDC.
tabling member printed	Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale
uin	HL6352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p>CDC is a public limited company with an independent Board and takes individual investment decisions independent of DFID. Information about the investment and its expected development impact is available on CDC's website <a href="http://cdcgroup.com/Media/News/CDC-invests-US181m-in-agribusiness-in-the-Democratic-Republic-of-Congo/" target="_blank">http://cdcgroup.com/Media/News/CDC-invests-US181m-in-agribusiness-in-the-Democratic-Republic-of-Congo/</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Northover grouped question UIN HL6353 HL6354 question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4168 label Biography information for Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale

45489

registered interest
date	26/03/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
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 compatibility of Feronia's registration in the Cayman Islands with sustainable economic development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
tabling member printed	Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale
uin	HL6354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p>CDC is a public limited company with an independent Board and takes individual investment decisions independent of DFID. Information about the investment and its expected development impact is available on CDC's website <a href="http://cdcgroup.com/Media/News/CDC-invests-US181m-in-agribusiness-in-the-Democratic-Republic-of-Congo/" target="_blank">http://cdcgroup.com/Media/News/CDC-invests-US181m-in-agribusiness-in-the-Democratic-Republic-of-Congo/</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Northover grouped question UIN HL6352 HL6353 question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4168 label Biography information for Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale