Written Question·Home Office·UIN 38705
Delivery Services: Crimes against the Person
Tabled: 17 March 2025
Answered: 25 March 2025
Question
Shivani Raja
Conservative — Leicester East
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has considered expanding the definition of assault of a retail worker to include retail home delivery drivers.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonShop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this. We will not stand for this. Everybody has a right to feel safe at their place of work.Through our Crime and Pol...
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