Written Question·Home Office·UIN 58272

Banks and Building Societies: Crimes of Violence

Tabled: 9 June 2025
Answered: 17 June 2025

Question

Navendu Mishra

LabourStockport

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a standalone offense of assaulting a retail worker that includes (a) bank and (b) building society workers.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
Section 156 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 creates a statutory aggravating factor in sentencing cases of assault against public facing workers. It applies where an assault is committed against those providing a public service, perfor...

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