Written Question·Home Office·UIN 76129

Pharmacy: Crimes against the Person

Tabled: 9 September 2025

Answered: 17 September 2025

Question

Mr Connor Rand

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a standalone offence of assaulting a retail worker would apply to workers in community pharmacies.

Answer

Sarah Jones

Through 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 shop workers that we have seen in recent years and protect t...

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