Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what organisation will take over the competencies of the National Metal Theft Taskforce once funding for that body ends.

The Home Office will continue to contribute to the funding of the National
Metal Theft Taskforce until 30 September 2014. The decision to provide funding
until that date ensures the Taskforce operates concurrently with the first year
of the new licensing scheme under the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013. After that
date, future enforcement activity will become the responsibility of individual
police forces based on their local crime priorities. It was never the
intention that the Taskforce would continue indefinitely.