To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what advice he gives to magistrates adjudicating cases of shoplifting carried out in stores during Sunday trading.

It would not be appropriate for my right hon. Friend to give guidance to magistrates about the way in which they exercise their judicial discretion in cases before them.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy to bring forward the necessary statutory instrument to include the offence of illegal Sunday trading within the list of offences for which a confiscation order may be made under the terms of section 71 and schedule 4 to the Criminal Justice Act 1988.

No.