Written Question·Home Office·UIN 79906
Betting Shops: Crimes against the Person
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025
Question
Gill German
Labour — Clwyd North
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to include betting shop workers within the scope of the offence of assault against a retail worker.
Answer
Sarah JonesThrough our Crime and Policing Bill, this Government has introduced a new specific standalone offence of assaulting a retail worker to help tackle the epidemic of shop theft and violence towards retail shop workers that we have seen in recent years.For th...
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