Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the level of stolen scrap metal exported for sale abroad.

The Home Office has not undertaken an assessment of the level of stolen scrap
metal exported for sale abroad.

We are aware of the risk that stolen metals may be directly exported and so
work is underway with UK Border Force and other law enforcement organisations
to deal with this, including the better profiling and identification of
containers that may contain stolen metal. We are also looking to see whether
there are any technological solutions we can use to better secure our borders.