Question follow-through · 27779

Shoplifting: Crime Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support retailers to improve security measures in their stores to prevent crime.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 30 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 3 Feb 2025
Answer: 6 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

30 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support retailers to improve security measures in their stores to prevent crime.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Feb 2025
Answer published
Shop theft soared to unacceptable levels under the previous government, with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers. We will not stand for this. Everybody has a right to feel safe at their place of work.The Government is comm...

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