Question follow-through · 18829
Wholesale Trade: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the levels of wholesale crime.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the levels of wholesale crime.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2024
Answer published
Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level 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 to taking retail crime seriously...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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