Pharmacy: Crimes against the Person
Commons · Question 76129 · Tabled 9 Sep 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 17 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Connor Rand
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a standalone offence of assaulting a retail worker would apply to workers in community pharmacies.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Jones, 17 Sep 2025
Through our Crime and Policing Bill, this Government has introduced a new specific standalone offence of assaulting a retail worker to help tackle the epidemic of shop theft and violence towards shop workers that we have seen in recent years and protect t...