Shoplifting: Convictions
Commons · Question 28881 · Tabled 10 Sep 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 15 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Nick Timothy
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of theft from a shop in 2024, broken down by the number of people who received an immediate custodial sentence of (a) less than one month, (b) one month to less than three months, (
Answer
Answered by Jake Richards, 15 Sep 2026
The Ministry of Justice publishes statistics on convictions, sentencing outcomes and custodial sentence lengths for a wide range of offences in the Outcome by Offences Tool, including theft from shops. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Stat...