Written Question·Home Office·UIN 5055
Shoplifting: Crime Prevention
Tabled: 10 September 2024
Answered: 16 September 2024
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to increase deterrents for shoplifting.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonShoplifting continues to increase at an unacceptable level, with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this. We will not stand for this. Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job.This Government will end the effect...
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