Question follow-through · 10231
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the decision by the US Federal Trade Commission to require online subscription services to allow users to cancel more easily on UK consumers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the decision by the US Federal Trade Commission to require online subscription services to allow users to cancel more easily on UK consumers.
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2024
Answer published
Similar measures have already been introduced in the UK through the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. This introduces new rules to protect consumers from being trapped in unwanted subscription contracts, including a requirement for trad...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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