| Heading: |
Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence |
| Question ID: |
1789055 |
| UIN: |
41617 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-26 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5149 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Amanda Hack
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| Asking Member handle: |
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Amanda Hack
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the offence of assaulting a retail worker to wholesale workers operating in business-to-business premises. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-03 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1533 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Diana Johnson
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| Answering Member handle: |
DianaJohnsonMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@DianaJohnsonMP
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| Answer text: |
Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level with ever greater numbers of offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers as part of their crime. We will not stand for this. Everybody has a right to feel safe at their place of work.Thr... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |