Question follow-through · 82522
Shoplifting
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle shoplifting.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 27 Oct 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle shoplifting.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level. We will not stand for this.Our approach is clear – we want to see more officers on the streets and those officers to be armed with new powers.That is why we’re giving officers the powers they need...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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