| Heading: |
Trading Standards |
| Question ID: |
1787606 |
| UIN: |
40437 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1576 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mark Pritchard
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| Asking Member handle: |
MPritchardMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@MPritchardMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will increase (a) criminal sanctions and (b) financial penalties for breaches of Trading Standards laws. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-31 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4418 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Justin Madders
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| Answering Member handle: |
justinmadders
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@justinmadders
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| Answer text: |
Local authority trading standards services oversee numerous pieces of legislation, including consumer protection, product safety, weights and measures, food standards, animal health and welfare, environmental protection, estates and lettings, and age-rest... |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |