Question follow-through · 28184
Consumers: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to improve consumer rights protections.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 11 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to improve consumer rights protections.
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Department for Business and Trade is implementing the new consumer rights introduced by the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. The new consumer enforcement regime – which we will commence in April – gives the CMA new direct enforceme...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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