Written questions

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...