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Written question asked by Emma Reynolds (Labour) on Monday, 22 October 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 25 October 2018 (named day). It was answered by Nick Hurd (Conservative) on Thursday, 25 October 2018 on behalf of the Home Office.

Retail Trade: Robbery

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of robberies of shops recorded by her Department involved the use of a weapon, in each year since 2010.

Answer

The Home Office collects data on the number of crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales but it is not possible to separately identify assaults against shopkeepers or robberies of shops from the data centrally held.

Statistics on all assaults and of robberies of business property are published quarterly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The latest figures, which contain time series from April 2002 to June 2018, can be accessed here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables

The Home Office’s Commercial Victimisation Survey provides estimates of the volume of crime experienced by business premises including in the Wholesale and Retail sector. The survey is able to estimate the number of assaults and threats and the number of robberies experienced by businesses in that sector but the sample size is not large enough to provide separate estimates of the number of assaults against shopkeepers or the proportion of robberies in which a weapon has been used. The latest results from the CVS can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-against-businesses-findings-from-the-2017-commercial-victimisation-survey

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
182147
Session
2017-19
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Offensive weapons Shops Retail trade Robbery
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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