questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to include betting shop workers within the scope of the offence of assault against a retail worker.
answerText: Through our Crime and Policing Bill, this Government has introduced a new specific standalone offence of assaulting a retail worker to help tackle the epidemic of shop theft and violence towards retail shop workers that we have seen in recent years.For th...
heading: Betting Shops: Crimes against the Person