Question follow-through · 33828
Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) training and (b) resources she is providing to law enforcement to ensure effective enforcement of the proposed offence of assaulting a shopworker.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 4 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) training and (b) resources she is providing to law enforcement to ensure effective enforcement of the proposed offence of assaulting a shopworker.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Mar 2025
Answer published
Through our Crime and Policing Bill, introduced on 25 February, this Government has brought forward a new offence of assaulting a retail worker, to protect hardworking and dedicated shop workers, including small and independent retailers. The offence carr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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