Shoplifting: Sentencing
Commons · Question 27672 · Tabled 30 Jan 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 7 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
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
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 7 Feb 2025
In 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...