Baroness McIntosh of Pickering – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness McIntosh of Pickering on 2016-09-05.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of rural crime on farmers and other rural businesses.

Baroness Williams of Trafford

The 2015 Commercial Victimisation Survey found that 24 per cent of agriculture, forestry and fishing premises had experienced at least one incident of crime (excluding online crime) a statistically significant fall of six percentage points compared with the 2013 Survey. Vandalism, theft and burglary were the most common crime types experienced by this sector. On average there were 330 incidents of online crime per 1,000 premises in this sector, which is around a third of the incidence rate for ‘traditional’ crimes against this sector. The majority of online crime incidents involved computer viruses.