Question follow-through · 48504

Delivery Services: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take legislative steps to help protect the safety of retail home delivery drivers.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
30 Apr 2025
Answer
6 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take legislative steps to help protect the safety of retail home delivery drivers.

  2. 30 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 May 2025

    Answer published

    Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level, 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.Through our Crime and Policing Bill...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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