questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will increase the length of sentences for people who commit violent crime against retail workers.
answerText: Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for the courts, and the courts have a range of sentencing powers to deal with each offender effectively and appropriately, including discharges, fines, community sentences, suspended sentences and imprisonment.Th...
heading: Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence