Question follow-through · 14221
Construction: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what support the Government provides to (a) individuals and (b) businesses impacted by rogue operators in the building industry.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what support the Government provides to (a) individuals and (b) businesses impacted by rogue operators in the building industry.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 sets out the standards consumers can expect when a trader supplies goods and services, including building work, and remedies if these rights are breached. Consumers can seek redress through local authority trading standards or...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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