Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of arson investigations undertaken by local authorities in England in each of the last five years.

The Home Office collects data on arson offences recorded by the police and the outcomes of resulting investigations of the offences. The data for the police forces in England is published on the Home Office website at the address below:

Police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Data by local authority is not published.