Written Question·Home Office·UIN 40006

Delivery Services: Crimes against the Person

Tabled: 20 March 2025

Answered: 28 March 2025

Question

Mrs Elsie Blundell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle (a) violence and (b) abuse against retail delivery drivers.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson

Shop 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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