Betting Shops: Crimes of Violence

(asked on 24th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many violent incidences have been recorded in betting shops in the six months (a) before 1 April 2019 and (b) after 1 April 2019.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 30th January 2020

The Home Office collects data on the number of violent crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales and these data are published quarterly.

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

However, these data do not identify whether the offence took place at a betting shop.

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