PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Food: Theft (10 December 2014)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the change in the rate of food theft since 2010.
Asked by:
Stephen Doughty (Labour)
Asked by:
Stephen Doughty (Labour)
Answer
The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the number of incidents of food theft. Police recorded crime data held by the Home Office records numbers of thefts, but does not separately identify those involving food.
At a national level, the National Retail Crime Steering Group, chaired by the Minister for Crime Prevention, brings together representatives from Government, law enforcement and retail organisations, both large and small. The Steering
Group is intended to identify retail crime issues of national concern and provide a forum for information sharing and agreeing action.
Answered by:
Baroness Featherstone (Liberal Democrat)
15 December 2014
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