Question follow-through · 39152

Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including retail home delivery drivers within the definition of assaults on retail workers.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 18 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 20 Mar 2025
Answer: 26 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

18 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including retail home delivery drivers within the definition of assaults on retail workers.
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2025
Answer published
I refer the Hon. Member to my response given to UIN 38705 on 24 March 2025.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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