Written Question·Home Office·UIN 41617
Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence
Tabled: 26 March 2025
Answered: 3 April 2025
Question
Amanda Hack
Labour — North West Leicestershire
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the offence of assaulting a retail worker to wholesale workers operating in business-to-business premises.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonShop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level with ever greater numbers of offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers as part of their crime. We will not stand for this. Everybody has a right to feel safe at their place of work.Thr...
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