Question follow-through · 1607
Shoplifting: Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the number of police hours spent on investigating shoplifting crimes in Bedfordshire in which the value of the goods taken was less than £200, in the latest period fo
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 24 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 26 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 1 Aug 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the number of police hours spent on investigating shoplifting crimes in Bedfordshire in which the value of the goods taken was less than £200, in the latest period fo
26 Jul 2024
Target answer date
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1 Aug 2024
Answer published
The latest Police Recorded Crime figures showed 443,995 shoplifting offences for the year ending March 2024, an increase by 30% compared to the previous 12 months. Although the volume of charges for shoplifting rose by 47% in the year ending March 2024 (t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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