questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to protect retail staff from (a) intimidation and (b) assault.
answerText: Shoplifting has increased at an unacceptable level in recent yeara, with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this. We will not stand for it.This Government will introduce a new offence of assaulting a retail worker t...
heading: Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence