Question follow-through · 76129

Pharmacy: Crimes against the Person

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a standalone offence of assaulting a retail worker would apply to workers in community pharmacies.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
9 Sept 2025
Target answer date
11 Sept 2025
Answer
17 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a standalone offence of assaulting a retail worker would apply to workers in community pharmacies.

  2. 11 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Through our Crime and Policing Bill, this Government has introduced a new specific standalone offence of assaulting a retail worker to help tackle the epidemic of shop theft and violence towards shop workers that we have seen in recent years and protect t...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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