Written Question·Home Office·UIN 27672
Shoplifting: Sentencing
Tabled: 30 January 2025
Answered: 7 February 2025
Question
Lee Anderson
Reform UK — Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the length of prison sentences for violent shoplifting offences.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonIn the last year of the previous government, shoplifting soared to a twenty-year high, with more and more offenders using violence and abuse . We will not stand for this.Everybody has a right to feel safe at their place of work and this Government is comm...
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