Crimes against the Person: Retail Trade
Commons · Question 107965 · Tabled 23 Jan 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 2 Feb 2026
Question
Asked by Andrew Rosindell
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken with police forces to tackle a) physical and b) verbal abuse against retail workers.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Jones, 2 Feb 2026
Charges for shop theft rose by 25% (up to 107,090 charges) in the year ending June 2025. As this was a higher rate of increase than the rise in shop thefts recorded (13%), this led to an increase in the charge rate from 17.7% to 19.1%.This Government is c...