Question follow-through · 35569
Trading Standards: Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the current level of resources for local trading standards services based within local authorities in Great Britain.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 4 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 14 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the current level of resources for local trading standards services based within local authorities in Great Britain.
6 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Mar 2025
Answer published
Local authorities are independent of central government and are responsible for managing their own services and financial positions.The final Local Government Finance Settlement for 2025-26 makes available over £69 billion for local government, which is a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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