Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) incidents of heating oil theft, (b) incidents resulting in a charge or summons for heating oil theft and (c) prosecutions for heating oil theft there have been in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of theft offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, and their investigative outcomes, including charges.

However, information on what is stolen is not routinely collected by the Home Office and prosecution data held by the Ministry of Justice cannot provide such breakdowns.