Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Rachael Maskell Excerpts
Monday 15th January 2024

(10 months, 1 week ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. Secretary of State—I said the same to the Minister—please, you were very slow at the beginning; you will not be slow at the end, I am sure.

Rachael Maskell Portrait Rachael Maskell (York Central) (Lab/Co-op)
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On Friday I visited five Co-op stores and every one of them had daily experience of theft, with one losing £35,000-worth of goods over six months and staff experiencing assaults. In light of Labour’s pledge to introduce 13,000 more community police and a law on retail crime, what is the Secretary of State really doing? Clearly his plan is not working.