PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Crime: Rural Areas (12 July 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to reduce (a) rural crime rates and (b) incidences of hare coursing; and what the timeframe is for implementing those plans.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

We remain committed in our ambition to reduce levels of rural crime; including those offences related to hare coursing. That is why, we are supporting the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on its legislative proposals set out in the Action Plan on Animal Welfare, which was published on 12 May 2021.

This department is also assisting with police’s operational and strategic efforts to reduce levels of rural crime, through the ongoing recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers, and continued funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit.

Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
20 July 2021