Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what comparative assessment her Department has made of geographical locations and the prevalence of retail theft.
The Home Office collects information on the number of police recorded shoplifting offences at Police Force Area (PFA) and Community Safe Partnership (CSP) level. These data are published quarterly and can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables.
Information on offenders is not available.