Retail Trade: Crimes against the Person

(asked on 22nd October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many assaults against shop keepers were recorded by her Department in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 25th October 2018

The Home Office collects data on the number of crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales but it is not possible to separately identify assaults against shopkeepers or robberies of shops from the data centrally held.

Statistics on all assaults and of robberies of business property are published quarterly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The latest figures, which contain time series from April 2002 to June 2018, can be accessed here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables

The Home Office’s Commercial Victimisation Survey provides estimates of the volume of crime experienced by business premises including in the Wholesale and Retail sector. The survey is able to estimate the number of assaults and threats and the number of robberies experienced by businesses in that sector but the sample size is not large enough to provide separate estimates of the number of assaults against shopkeepers or the proportion of robberies in which a weapon has been used. The latest results from the CVS can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-against-businesses-findings-from-the-2017-commercial-victimisation-survey

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