Question follow-through · 10127
Retail Trade: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to better protect retail workers from retail crime and ensure stronger action against those responsible.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2026 · 2 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to better protect retail workers from retail crime and ensure stronger action against those responsible.
18 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jun 2026
Answer published
The level of shop theft remains unacceptable. But our action to restore neighbourhood policing is making a difference – including delivering more than 3,100 additional police officers and PCSOs into neighbourhood roles since March 2025, two months ahead o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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