“What steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to facilitate the retrofitting of energy-saving measures to buildings in England.”
Asked by
Dame Harriett Baldwin
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention (Dame Diana Johnson)
In the last year of the previous Government, shop theft reached a record high, and we saw intolerable levels of abuse against shop workers, leaving people fearful of going to work. This Government will not stand by as these crimes devastate our high streets and town centres. That is why we are committed to rebuilding neighbourhood policing, scrapping the £200 limit, which has let thieves steal below the level with impunity, and introducing a new, stand-alone offence of assaulting a retail worker.