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Shoplifting: Essex

Asked by James McMurdockIndependentHome OfficeTabled Answered 14 November 2024UIN 12822

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce shoplifting in Essex.

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson

Shop theft rose to record levels under the previous government , with shopworkers facing unacceptable violence and abuse in the process. We will not stand for this. Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job.

This Government will end the effective impunity, introduced by the previous Government, granted to shop theft of goods under £200 and we will also introduce a new offence of assaulting a retail worker to protect the hardworking and dedicated staff that work in stores.

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