Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 52668

Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence

Tabled: 15 May 2025

Answered: 22 May 2025

Question

Lee Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will increase the length of sentences for people who commit violent crime against retail workers.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for the courts, and the courts have a range of sentencing powers to deal with each offender effectively and appropriately, including discharges, fines, community sentences, suspended sentences and imprisonment.Th...

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