Agricultural Machinery: Theft
(asked on 25th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent of farm equipment theft.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The Home Office’s Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS) asks businesses about their experience of crime in the last 12 months.
Figures on crime experienced by business premises within the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector have been published in the latest ‘Crime against businesses’ publication: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-against-businesses-findings-from-the-2017-commercial-victimisation-survey-data-tables.
This includes estimates of theft and specifically of livestock theft but not on the theft of farm equipment.