Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 18644
Insurance and Small Businesses: Shoplifting
Tabled: 9 December 2024
Answered: 6 January 2025
Question
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Labour — Clapham and Brixton Hill
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on (a) small businesses and (b) insurance premiums of changes in the levels of high street thefts.
Answer
Gareth ThomasShop 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 on the job.We will end the effective immunity, ...
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