Written Question·Home Office·UIN 9308
Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence
Tabled: 15 October 2024
Answered: 23 October 2024
Question
Amanda Hack
Labour — North West Leicestershire
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to reduce the wait time to report assaults on retail staff by telephone in Leicestershire.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonShoplifting has increased at an unacceptable level in recent yeara, with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this. We will not stand for it.This Government will introduce a new offence of assaulting a retail worker t...
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