HC Deb 31 October 1979 vol 972 cc520-1W
Mr. Adley

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to institute a procedure whereby magistrates license self-service stores in respect of their theft-preventive measures similar to the system used to issue licences for the sale of alcoholic beverages.

Mr. Whitelaw

This proposal is one of several contained in the report on shoplifting which my hon. Friend sent to me earlier in the year. We shall be writing to him about this shortly.

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