Wholesale Trade: Crimes of Violence
Commons · Question 18513 · Tabled 9 Dec 2024 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Question
Asked by Sharon Hodgson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to include provisions on the protection of wholesale workers in the Crime and Policing Bill.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 17 Dec 2024
Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level, up 29% on year up to June 2024, with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this. We won’t stand for this.Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job and this...