Shoplifting
In a written question to the Home Secretary, Philip Dunne asks for the estimated value of goods was stolen from retail premises in each year from 1997-98 to 2007-08.
Mr. Dunne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimated value of goods was stolen from retail premises in each year from 1997-98 to 2007-08. [264081]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 16 March 2009]: The information requested is not collected centrally on a year on year basis. The Home Office Commercial Victimisation Survey last carried out in 2002 reported that, on average, a single incident of shop theft cost the retailer £35 in loss and damage. The Home Office is currently scoping a new Commercial Victimisation survey to be carried later this year.
