Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle retail crime.

Tackling retail crime, in partnership with police and retailers, is a top priority for this government.

In the last year of the previous government, shop theft reached a record high, and violence and abuse towards retail workers increased at an unacceptable level.

This Government will not tolerate these crimes. Through our Crime and Policing Bill, we have introduced a new offence of assaulting a retail worker and we will end the effective immunity for shop theft of goods under £200.