To highlight the cost of retail crime to the high street (£600m a year), improve understanding of how this type of crime affects small businesses and what impact incidents of retail crime will have an effect on our high streets if left unchecked.
1. Minister for Crime plans to protect shop workers from violence
12/02/2019 - Home Office
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Minister for Crime plans to protect shop workers from violence - GOV
2. Crime against businesses: findings from the 2018 Commercial Victimisation Survey
05/09/2019 - Home Office
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Crime against bu
sinesses: findings
from the 2018
Commercial
Victimisation Survey
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3. Crime against businesses: findings from the 2018 Commercial Victimisation Survey
05/09/2019 - Home Office
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Found: Commercial Victimisation Survey
Wholesale and retail
sector
Key findings:
The latest survey year
4. Government calls on shopworkers for views on violence at work
05/04/2019 - Home Office
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Found: and communications
Home
Crime, justice and law
News story
5. Violence and abuse toward shop staff: call for evidence
17/04/2019 - Home Office
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Found: associations
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Duration:
From
05/04/19 to 28/06/19
1. Retail Crime Prevention
05/11/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: That this House has considered prevention of retail crime.Welcome to the Chair, Mr Betts, for the - Speech Link
2: economic cost of retail crime. Does he agree that there is also a human cost to retail crime and that we must - Speech Link
3: point. I am starting with the financial cost of crime, but I will come in a moment to the key issue, of - Speech Link
4: million via robbery. That is the very hard end of retail crime whereby people walk into shops with shotguns - Speech Link
2. Retail Crime
11/04/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: That this House has considered prevention of retail crime.I welcome you to the Chair, Mr Robertson - Speech Link
2: British Retail Consortium, the Association of Convenience Stores, the National Federation of Retail Newsagents - Speech Link
3: that for those 22,000-plus shops, the cost of retail crime equates to £246 million per year, or £5,308 - Speech Link
4: turning to the Government’s response to incidents of retail theft through the police forces, I will quote John - Speech Link
3. Retail Workers: Protection
11/02/2020 - Westminster Hall
1: That this House has considered protection of retail workers.It is a pleasure to serve under - Speech Link
2: is a particular problem with lone workers in the retail sector, and that it is something we need to pay - Speech Link
3: faced by retail workers is despite the fact that retailers spent nearly £1 billion on crime prevention - Speech Link
4: presence on the high street, as a deterrent to retail crime? One way of achieving protection is CCTV on - Speech Link
5: partnership with organisations such as the British Retail Consortium and the Co-op, as they have done to - Speech Link
6: than enough to cause retail workers panic attacks and anxiety after an assault. Retail workers, especially - Speech Link
4. Assaults on Retail Workers (Offences)
16/03/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: assault, aggravated when perpetrated against a retail worker in the course of their employment; to make - Speech Link
5. Shop Workers: Protection
23/01/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: USDAW and other organisations representing the retail sector, ahead of Report on the Offensive Weapons - Speech Link
2: factor in sentencing guidelines. The Minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability will be discussing - Speech Link
3: those items. In addition to USDAW, the British Retail Consortium, the Co-op, the Association of Convenience - Speech Link
4: communications going forward and refreshing the national retail crime steering group, which the Minister got up and - Speech Link
5: consistent in protecting the public from the harms of crime and other things that take place on our streets - Speech Link
6. Sale of Knives
08/10/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: standards not do a thorough check throughout the retail trade and with the online trade in some way to - Speech Link
2: the sale of knives in areas where levels of knife crime are particularly high. We enforce this Act through - Speech Link
3: Lords, I speak as the mother of a victim of knife crime. I am surprised that the “No Points” campaign has - Speech Link
4: labelled. It is true that in both the online and retail worlds, age has to be verified at both ends, and - Speech Link
5: the register. This year’s APPG report on knife crime demonstrated a link between the serious cuts in - Speech Link
7. Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Ring-fenced Bodies and Core Activities) (Amendment) Order 2018
18/07/2018 - Grand Committee
1: separation of core retail banking from investment banking for UK banks with retail deposits of more than - Speech Link
2: I dived into Section 143(4) of the Policing and Crime Act 2017, but I have to say that, at that point - Speech Link
8. Offensive Weapons Bill
28/11/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: in a crime. They are simply too big. That is probably why they have never been used in a crime in this - Speech Link
2: National Crime Agency, but to imply that the provision would make the public any safer from gun crime is, - Speech Link
3: that important clarification.The National Crime Agency position brief was received by the Library - Speech Link
4: not held illegally and has never been used in a crime, how much easier would it be down the road to ban - Speech Link
5: Government’s efforts to respond to the surge in violent crime. We offered our support in Committee and now on - Speech Link
6: of this.I want to go on to the National Crime Agency’s letter, which the Government seem to place - Speech Link
9. Business of the House
18/10/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: victims of crime? If it is not stopped, we will create further unnecessary victims of crime. This is putting - Speech Link
2: raising a very serious issue—the rise in organised crime—which I know will be of concern to many hon. Members - Speech Link
3: representatives from the National Federation of Retail Newsagents and they echoed the concerns of shopkeepers - Speech Link
4: possible and that includes protecting them from crime. All incidents should be reported to the police - Speech Link
10. Business Rates
13/06/2018 - Westminster Hall
1: Almost every day, we learn of a chain of retail stores or local businesses closing its doors, resulting - Speech Link
2: It cannot be raised by more than the rate of the retail prices index, or the consumer prices index from - Speech Link
3: often have to invest in CCTV because of rising crime rates. In doing so, they can help the police by - Speech Link
4: rateable value. There is huge inequality within the retail sector. Pubs are also being put at risk. They pay - Speech Link
Registered Contact:
Steve McCabe MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 3509.
Email: mccabes@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Adrian Roper, National Federation of Retail Newsagents, Yeoman House, Sekforde Street, London EC1R 0HF. Tel: 020 7017 8856
Email: adrian.roper@nfrn.org.uk
Secretariat:
National Federation of Retail Newsagents acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.nfrnonline.com/
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Retail Crime APPG