Question follow-through · 18841
Construction: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle rogue builders.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle rogue builders.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2024
Answer published
There are a strong set of consumer law duties that apply to builders like any other trader in the UK, and the Government believes that dealing with rogue builders is primarily a matter of effective enforcement of that legislation. To this end DBT is stren...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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