Written Question·Home Office·UIN 289

Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence

Tabled: 17 July 2024
Answered: 26 July 2024

Question

Ben Goldsborough

LabourSouth Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the extent of (a) violence towards and (b) abuse of (i) shop staff and (ii) volunteers in the charity retail sector.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
Police recorded crime figures recorded 430,104 shoplifting offences for year ending December 2023, an increase by 37% in the 12 months leading up to. The British Retail Consortium Crime Report 2024 showed there were around 475,000 incidents of violence an...

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