Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of verbal and/or physical attacks on workers during the covid-19 outbreak, by sector of the economy.

There are no official figures for the number of verbal or physical attacks on workers during the covid-19 outbreak.

The Home Office collects data relating to assaults and threats made against staff in different business sectors via the Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS). However, the latest estimates are from the 2018 CVS, available in the link below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-against-businesses-findings-from-the-2018-commercial-victimisation-survey.

Survey results for the year ending March 2021 will be available in March 2022 and will cover only the wholesale and retail sector.