Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence

(asked on 30th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police charges have been made to date for assaults and threats against shop workers and owners that took place in the financial years (a) 2017/18 and (b) 2020/21.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 25th April 2022

The Home Office publishes information on outcomes assigned to offences recorded by the police and the latest data can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables

However, it is not possible to separately identify the number of charges for assaults and threats against shop workers or on the number of charges or Penalty Notice for Disorder for the theft of goods by customers from retail and wholesale premises.

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