Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) reports of, (b) charges for and (c) convictions for shoplifting there were in (i) Aldershot constituency and (ii) Hampshire in each of the last three years for which data is available.

The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of shoplifting offences, and their investigative outcomes, recorded by the police in England and Wales. This information is published at the Police Force Area level including Hampshire.

The latest information, for the year ending March 2024, is available here:

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

Statistics on convictions at court are published by the MoJ and can be accessed via their outcomes by offence data tool, available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2023

Data are not available at the Parliamentary Constituency level.