questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the introduction of the aggravating factor for attacks on public facing workers on levels of retail crime.
answerText: The Government is clear that violent and abusive behaviour towards any worker, particularly those who provide a valuable service to the public, is never acceptable.In 2022, we took the significant step to introduce a statutory aggravating factor for assau...
heading: Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence