Shoplifting
(asked on 10th July 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many incidents of shoplifting were recorded in each of the past five years; and how many resulted in a charge or summons.
The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of notifiable offences and their outcomes.
The table below show the volume of the shop theft offences outcomes recorded by the police in the years from 2020 to 2024 and how many of those resulted in a charge or summons.
Table 1: Shoplifting offences recorded by the police from 2020 to 2024, and those resulting in charge/summons, England and Wales [Note: 1] | |||
Calendar year (offence recorded) | Shoplifting offences | Charged/Summonsed | % |
2020 | 254,547 | 44,969 | 18% |
2021 | 256,198 | 39,353 | 15% |
2022 | 315,052 | 48,268 | 15% |
2023 | 429,873 | 72,144 | 17% |
2024 | 516,971 | 93,156 | 18% |
1. Figures for the period January to March 2020 exclude Greater Manchester police (GMP) | |||
as they were unable to provide full data to the Home Office Data Hub (HODH) in this period. | |||