Question follow-through · 60
Construction: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will introduce a licencing regime for builders.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 22 Jul 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will introduce a licencing regime for builders.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jul 2024
Answer published
This Government backs our wonderful construction industry and is working to ensure we have a high-quality and professional construction industry, with consumer protection at the heart of this. TrustMark, sponsored by the Department and licenced by the Gov...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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