Food: Theft

(asked on 10th December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of food theft occurred in each police force area in England and Wales in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014 to date.


Answered by
Baroness Featherstone Portrait
Baroness Featherstone
This question was answered on 15th December 2014

The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the number of incidents of food theft. Police recorded crime data held by the Home Office records numbers of thefts, but does not separately identify those involving food.

Similarly, the Home Office collects statistics on the number of shoplifting incidents recorded by the police at police force area, but this does not separately identify those offences involving food.

The total number of shoplifting offences in each financial year since 2010/11 are provided in the table.

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