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Personal Care Services: Money Laundering

Commons · Question 39410 · Tabled 19 Mar 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 24 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Dame Harriett Baldwin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number and proportion of barber shops that are linked to money laundering.

Answer

Answered by Dan Jarvis, 24 Mar 2025

According to a report by the Local Data Company and Green Street, the average number of barber shops per 10,000 people has more than doubled in the last 10 years, from 1.4 per 10,000 people in 2013, to 3.1 per 10,000 in 2023. The Government recognises tha...