Parliament debates extending retail crime bill to grocery drivers

Peers have signalled growing support for extending new protections for retail workers to include grocery delivery drivers, as debate on the Crime and Policing Bill continued in the House of Lords this week.
The development was welcomed by retail union Usdaw, which has long argued that drivers face similar risks of abuse to store staff.
During the committee stage, peers raised concerns that the legislation’s new standalone offence for assaulting retail workers does not currently cover home-