Violence against Shop Workers: Rural Areas

Part of Home Department – in the House of Commons at on 2 June 2025.

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Photo of Diana R. Johnson Diana R. Johnson The Minister of State, Home Department

A case has been made over several years for why retail workers should be covered by this specific offence. Work was done with the Co-op, the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers and many others to get the evidence together. If there is evidence from the financial sector and from banks, I want to see it, so I ask the hon. Gentleman to talk to the people with whom he was having conversations about this. I am very open to looking at this, but at the moment, we have drawn up the offence on the basis of the evidence available to us.