HC Deb 21 March 2002 vol 382 cc473-7W
Mr. Lepper

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what support his Department has given to the British Retail Consortium to(a) establish and (b) manage retail crime partnership; and what contribution his Department makes to the British Retail Consortium annual retail crime survey for England and Wales; [39863]

(2) if he will make a statement on the number of meetings he has had with representatives of the retail industry to discuss retail crime prevention in the last 12 months; [39864]

(3) what studies have been made of the effects of retail crime partnerships on crime reduction; and if he will publish a list of the locations of retail crime partnerships in the UK. [39865]

Mr. Denham

My hon. Friend (Mr. Ainsworth) addressed the launch of the British Retail Consortium annual crime survey on 27 June 2001. I also visited a number of retailers in the St. Leonards areas of Hastings on 6 February 2002 when the Small Retailers in Deprived Areas scheme was launched.

Home Office officials are in regular contact with several retail representative bodies to discuss a range of issues, including retail crime prevention. Home Office Ministers and officials will continue to hold meetings with retail representatives such as the British Retail Consortium to ensure that their concerns are heard and understood by Government.

My Department has supported the work undertaken to establish partnerships by funding development work by a consultant for the past two years. This has resulted in the production of a definitive guide on how to establish and run a retail crime partnership, and we have encouraged retailers and other stakeholders in main shopping centre areas to establish partnerships to tackle retail and related Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL),unless otherwise shown.

crime. We are aware of the following retail crime partnerships currently in existence in England and Wales and registered with Business Crime Check.

  • Acocks Green Shopping Centre (SC)
  • Aintree
  • Andover
  • Barnstaple
  • Barrow
  • Bath
  • Bedford
  • Birkenhead
  • Birmingham
  • Bitterne
  • Blackburn
  • Blackpool
  • Bluewater SC
  • Bognor Regis
  • Bolton
  • Bootle
  • Boscombe
  • Bournemouth
  • Bradford
  • Brent Cross SC
  • Bridlington
  • Brighton
  • Bristol Broadmead
  • Bromley
  • Burnley
  • Burton-On-Trent
  • Bury St. Edmunds
  • Buxton
  • Caernarfon
  • Cardiff
  • Carlisle
  • Cheltenham
  • Chester
  • Chesterfield
  • Clacton
  • Clapham
  • Coventry
  • Crawley
  • Cribbs Causeway
  • Crosby Village
  • Croydon
  • Darlington
  • Dewsbury
  • Durham
  • Eastleigh
  • Epsom
  • Evesham
  • Exeter
  • Fareham
  • Folkestone
  • Fosse Park SC
  • Gloucester
  • Gravesend
  • Great Yarmouth
  • Grimsby/Cleethorpes
  • Guildford
  • Hanley
  • Harbourne
  • Harlow
  • Hastings
  • Hatfield
  • Haywards Heath
  • Hemel Hempstead
  • Hereford
  • Hexham
  • Holloway
  • Hounslow
  • Huyton Village
  • Ipswich
  • Keighley
  • Kendal
  • Kensington, Liverpool
  • Kettering
  • Kidderminster
  • Kirby
  • Leamington Spa
  • Leeds
  • Leicester
  • Lewisham
  • Lincoln
  • Liscard SC
  • Littlehampton
  • Liverpool
  • Llandudno
  • Lowestoft
  • Luton
  • Lymington
  • Maidenhead
  • Maidstone
  • Manchester
  • Margate
  • Market Watch, Liverpool
  • Meadowhall SC
  • Merry Hill
  • Merthyr Tydfil
  • Metro Centre, Newcastle
  • Middlesbrough
  • Milton Keynes
  • Neath/Port Talbot
  • Nelson
  • Newbury
  • Newcastle
  • Newport, Isle of Wight
  • Newton Abbott
  • Northampton
  • Norwich
  • Nottingham
  • Nuneaton
  • Orpington
  • Peterborough
  • Plymouth
  • Pontefract
  • Portsmouth
  • Prescot/Fairfield
  • Preston
  • Redcar
  • Redditch
  • Rhyl
  • Richmond
  • Ringwood
  • Romford
  • Rugby
  • Rugeley
  • Salisbury
  • Scarborough
  • Sheffield
  • Shipley
  • Shoreham
  • Shrewsbury
  • Sittingbourne
  • Skegness
  • Slough
  • Solihull
  • Southport
  • Southsea
  • Stevenage
  • Stockport
  • Stockton
  • Stoke-on-Trent
  • Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Sutton
  • Sutton in Ashfield
  • Swansea
  • Swindon
  • Taunton
  • Telford
  • Trafford Centre
  • Tunbridge Wells
  • Uxbridge
  • Wallington
  • Walsall
  • Waltham Cross
  • Walthamstow
  • Walton
  • Wandsworth
  • Warrington
  • Watford
  • Welwyn Garden City
  • Westminster
  • Weston-Super-Mare
  • Wimborne
  • Winchester
  • Windsor
  • Wirral
  • Wolverhampton
  • Wood Green
  • Woolwich
  • Worcester
  • Workington
  • Wrexham.

There are other locations where partnerships are known to exist or are being developed but these are not registered with Business Crime Check. I am not aware of any specific studies on the effects of retail crime partnerships on crime reduction

The annual retail crime survey carried out independently by the British Retail Consortium and my Department is not involved in its production.

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