Question follow-through · 14572
Locksmiths: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making locksmithing a regulated profession to tackle rogue traders.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 15 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 21 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making locksmithing a regulated profession to tackle rogue traders.
19 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Nov 2024
Answer published
The UK’s framework for occupational regulation upholds public protection, while ensuring regulatory burdens on industry are proportionate. Although the locksmithing profession is not subject to statutory regulation, several self-regulating trade associati...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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