Question follow-through · 16061
Delivery Services: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of reported incidents of violence against retail workers employed in home delivery; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impac
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of reported incidents of violence against retail workers employed in home delivery; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impac
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
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3 Dec 2024
Answer published
Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level, up 29% on year up to June 2024, with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this.Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job and this government is committed ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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