Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what specific steps she is taking to help tackle the burglary of businesses.

The Government recognises the impact crimes such as burglary can have on individuals, businesses and the wider community.

The Home Office is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council to encourage forces to learn from each other and share best practice, and in June 2022 NPCC launched the Burglary Power App to help officers gather evidence and investigate burglaries.

The Home Office works closely with the police-led National Business Crime Centre (NBCC) to understand the crimes affecting businesses and help ensure businesses and police are working effectively together. A crime prevention guidance is available for businesses on Police.uk, including information on protecting businesses from burglary.

To ensure police forces have sufficient resources to respond to the challenges they face we have committed to recruit an extra 20,000 police officers by March 2023, with over 15,343 already in place at the end of September 2022.