Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of fixed penalty notices of under £100 were issued for shop theft offences in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

The Home Office collates and publishes information on fixed penalty notices. The Ministry of Justice has published information on out of court disposals including Penalty Notices for Disorder (PND) and cautions up to December 2018. This information, relating to specific offences, can be found using the Out of Court Disposals data tool.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802305/out-of-court-disposal-tool-2018.xlsx

In the PND pivot replace ‘Outcome’ with ‘Offence’ in the ‘Row’ field. The total number of PNDs issued for ‘DA12 Theft (retail under £100)’ will then be displayed in row 28. Totals of all PNDs are displayed in row 51 of the same table, which allows a proportion to be identified.