PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Food: Theft (10 December 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of food theft occurred in each police force area in England and Wales in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014 to date.

Asked by:
Stephen Doughty (Labour)

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.

Similarly, the Home Office collects statistics on the number of shoplifting incidents recorded by the police at police force area, but this does not separately identify those offences involving food.

The total number of shoplifting offences in each financial year since 2010/11 are provided in the table.

Answered by:
Baroness Featherstone (Liberal Democrat)
15 December 2014