Question follow-through · 104212
Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the definition of assault of a retail worker to include workers in other high street outlets serving customers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the definition of assault of a retail worker to include workers in other high street outlets serving customers.
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2026
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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