Question follow-through · 12822

Shoplifting: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce shoplifting in Essex.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 5 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 11 Nov 2024
Answer: 14 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

5 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce shoplifting in Essex.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2024
Answer published
Shop theft rose to record levels under the previous government , with shopworkers facing unacceptable violence and abuse in the process. We will not stand for this. Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job.This Government will end the effective impun...

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