Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her strategy is to combat rural crime during the 2017 Parliament.
While the independent Crime Survey for England and Wales continues to show that, for those crimes covered by the Survey, people in rural areas are less likely to be the victims of crime than those in urban areas, we do recognise the impact that crime can have on rural communities. However, it is for chief constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, as operational leaders and elected local representatives, to decide how best to deploy resources to manage and respond to crime, in both rural and urban areas alike.