Retail Crime APPG

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

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

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

1: assault, aggravated when perpetrated against a retail worker in the course of their employment; to make - Speech Link

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

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

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

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

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

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