Question follow-through · 107965

Crimes against the Person: Retail Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken with police forces to tackle a) physical and b) verbal abuse against retail workers.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 23 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 27 Jan 2026
Answer: 2 Feb 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

23 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken with police forces to tackle a) physical and b) verbal abuse against retail workers.
27 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Feb 2026
Answer published
Charges for shop theft rose by 25% (up to 107,090 charges) in the year ending June 2025. As this was a higher rate of increase than the rise in shop thefts recorded (13%), this led to an increase in the charge rate from 17.7% to 19.1%.This Government is c...

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