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Retail Trade: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the causes of retail crime.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
20 May 2025
Target answer date
22 May 2025
Answer
30 May 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the causes of retail crime.

  2. 22 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 May 2025

    Answer published

    This Government is committed to tackling anti-social behaviour and retail crime and its causes, as a key part of our Safer Streets Mission. Key to this is our plan to transform neighbourhood policing through our Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee. We will d...

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