Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of lead theft from churches were reported in (a) Suffolk and (b) England in each of the last 12 months.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes police recorded crime data on metal theft annually within their property crime tables. The latest figures, for the year ending March 2017, can be accessed here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/focusonpropertycrimeappendixtables