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tabling member › label	Biography information for Bill Esterson
min answer › date of answer	2022-07-19
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an estimate of the economic cost of metal theft to the UK economy.

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21/04/2023

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an estimate of the economic cost of metal theft to the UK economy.

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Sefton Central

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Bill Esterson

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26/04/2023

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The Scrap Metal Dealers Act (2013) was introduced to reduce metal theft by strengthening regulation of the scrap metal industry.The most recent assessment of the cost of metal theft was at the time of the 2013 Act’s enactment with an estimated cost of £228 million in England and Wales.<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1064996%2FAnnex_A_20220114_Scrap_Metal_Dealers_PIR_FINAL_FOR_PUBLICATION.pdf&data=05%7C01%7CKhadijah.Ishaq%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ce3e445c6675a49b0563708db44d38ff7%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638179447666196114%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fQ%2F6S9%2BvkqNhqR3hPphj2vmnnCanSlvgdQQq3w7x3W8%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a>

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Croydon South

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Chris Philp

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26/04/2023 13:38:59

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