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Pets: Theft

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Question for Home Office

UIN 52303, tabled on 8 November 2016

Question

Mr Nigel Evans
Conservative
Ribble Valley
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many pets were reported stolen in 2015.

Answer

Brandon Lewis
Conservative
Great Yarmouth
Commons

Answered on

20 December 2016

The Home Office holds statistics on notifiable offences recorded by the police. The police record offences of thefts in a number of categories and supply this information to the Home Office. Thefts of pets in general as well as dogs and cats more specifically are most likely to be recorded within ‘other theft’ and cannot be separately identified within this category.

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