Question follow-through · 18644
Insurance and Small Businesses: Shoplifting
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on (a) small businesses and (b) insurance premiums of changes in the levels of high street thefts.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 6 Jan 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on (a) small businesses and (b) insurance premiums of changes in the levels of high street thefts.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jan 2025
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. We will not stand for this, everybody has a right to feel safe on the job.We will end the effective immunity, ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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