Question follow-through · 21549
Retail Trade: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle retail crime in (a) Southampton and (b) nationally; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional powers to the police for
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 19 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2025 · 25 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle retail crime in (a) Southampton and (b) nationally; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional powers to the police for
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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13 Jan 2025
Answer published
Shop theft is at a record high, police recorded crime for shoplifting in Southampton Community Partnership area saw an increase of (43%) in the latest year and a higher increase than in England and Wales as a whole (29%).This Government is taking strong a...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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