| Heading: |
Shoplifting: Sentencing |
| Question ID: |
1760388 |
| UIN: |
27672 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4743 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lee Anderson
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| Asking Member handle: |
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lee Anderson
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the length of prison sentences for violent shoplifting offences. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-07 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1533 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Diana Johnson
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| Answering Member handle: |
DianaJohnsonMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@DianaJohnsonMP
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
In the last year of the previous government, shoplifting soared to a twenty-year high, with more and more offenders using violence and abuse . We will not stand for this.Everybody has a right to feel safe at their place of work and this Government is comm... |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |