To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle retail crime.
Answered on
31 March 2025
Tackling retail crime, in partnership with police and retailers, is a top priority for this government.
In the last year of the previous government, shop theft reached a record high, and violence and abuse towards retail workers increased at an unacceptable level.
This Government will not tolerate these crimes. Through our Crime and Policing Bill, we have introduced a new offence of assaulting a retail worker and we will end the effective immunity for shop theft of goods under £200.
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