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Retail Trade: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help improve police responses to retail crime in rural areas.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
27 Feb 2026
Target answer date
3 Mar 2026
Answer
9 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help improve police responses to retail crime in rural areas.

  2. 3 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    The central aim of our police reforms is to protect and revitalise neighbourhood policing. We are lifting national responsibilities off local forces so they focus on tackling local issues, like fighting retail crime. All communities, including rural commu...

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