Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence
(asked on 22nd July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of assaults on shop workers in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 7th September 2020
The Home Office collects data relating to assaults and threats against retail staff via the ‘Commercial Victimisation Survey’ (CVS). However, the latest estimates are from the 2018 CVS (available in the link below).
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-against-businesses-findings-from-the-2018-commercial-victimisation-survey.
The next survey will be conducted in early 2021 with results available later in that year.