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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...