Wholesale Trade: Crimes of Violence
Commons · Question 18831 · Tabled 9 Dec 2024 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Question
Asked by Paul Davies
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help protect wholesale workers from crime.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 17 Dec 2024
Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this. Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job and this Government is committed to taking retail crime seriously...