Shoplifting
Commons · Question 27987 · Tabled 3 Feb 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Rosindell
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle shoplifting.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 11 Feb 2025
In the last year of the previous government, shop theft soared to a twenty-year high, with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers. We will not stand for this.Everybody has a right to feel safe at their place of work and the G...