Question follow-through · 60063
Shoplifting
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with retailers on the prevention of shoplifting.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with retailers on the prevention of shoplifting.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jun 2025
Answer published
Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level and we will not stand for it. That’s why our Crime and Policing Bill introduces a new offence of assaulting a retail worker to protect the hardworking and dedicated staff that work in stores. Also ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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