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Shoplifting: Great Yarmouth

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 8 November 2024UIN 11955

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many shoplifting convictions there were by the nationality of the offender in Great Yarmouth constituency in each of the last five years.

Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants convicted for shoplifting offences by Police Force Area in each of the last five years in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: December 2023 - GOV.UK.

However, it is not possible to identify an offender’s nationality from the centrally collated convictions data. This information may be held on court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.

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