Question follow-through · 92550
Retail Trade: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of retail crime in the West Midlands; and what steps her Department is taking to support local police
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of retail crime in the West Midlands; and what steps her Department is taking to support local police
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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27 Nov 2025
Answer published
Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level. There were 33,363 shoplifting offences recorded by West Midlands police in the year ending June 2025, a 28% increase on the previous year. Nationally shop theft increased by 13% on the previous ye...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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