Question follow-through · 903982
Retail Trade: Crime
To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to help ensure increased prosecution rates for retail crime.
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- Answering body
- Attorney General
- Tabled
- 1 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 9 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to help ensure increased prosecution rates for retail crime.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
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9 May 2025
Answer published
This Government’s Safer Streets Mission will drive forward the change we need to crack down on shoplifting – a crime that is blighting our communities.As Solicitor General, I superintend the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which prosecutes shoplifting an...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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