Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) bicycles were reported as stolen, and (2) people were prosecuted for cycle theft, in each of the last five years.

The Home Office collects and publishes official statistics on the number of bicycle theft offences and their investigative outcomes reported to and recorded by the police in England and Wales, on a quarterly basis.

These can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables

The Ministry of Justice collects and publishes information on prosecutions as part of the outcomes by offence data tool.

This can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2022.