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Retail Trade: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle (a) shoplifting, (b) retail crime and (c) crime and violence against shop workers in Beckenham and Penge constituency.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 14 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 16 Jan 2025
Answer: 22 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle (a) shoplifting, (b) retail crime and (c) crime and violence against shop workers in Beckenham and Penge constituency.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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22 Jan 2025
Answer published
In the last year of the previous government shoplifting soared to a twenty-year high, with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers. We will not stand for this. Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job.This Government will...

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