To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 23 May 2007, Official Report, columns 1324-25W, on crime: intellectual property (IP), how many police forces have established strategies to deal with IP crime; and what steps she is taking to monitor progress in implementing these strategies. (147769)

The establishment of strategies to tackle all types of crime is an operational matter, solely the responsibility of individual chief officers of police, on which information is not held centrally.

From 1 August, an officer from South Wales police will be joining the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) on a three year secondment to assist both the IPO and police authorities develop intelligence on IP crime in line with the national IP Crime Strategy.