Written questions

Rural Areas: Crime

Commons · Question 63165 · Tabled 26 Jun 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 3 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Maya Ellis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in levels of rural crime in Ribble Valley constituency; and what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to su

Answer

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 3 Jul 2025

Rural crime can have devastating consequences for countryside communities and the agricultural sector. That is why this Government is committed to reducing crime in rural areas.Under our Safer Streets Mission reforms, rural communities will be safeguarded...