Delivery Services: Crimes of Violence
Commons · Question 47845 · Tabled 24 Apr 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 2 May 2025
Question
Asked by Ian Byrne
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider including retail home delivery drivers within the definition of assaults on retail workers.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 2 May 2025
Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level, 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.Through our Crime and Policing Bill...