Question follow-through · 35570
Consumers: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that local trading standards services have adequate (a) support and (b) expertise to enforce consumer protection laws introduced through the Digital M
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 4 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 12 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that local trading standards services have adequate (a) support and (b) expertise to enforce consumer protection laws introduced through the Digital M
6 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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12 Mar 2025
Answer published
Department for Business and Trade officials have contributed to training events and provided practical information to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute to disseminate to trading standards officers about the Digital Markets, Competition and Consume...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Cluster Munitions: Manufacturing Industries and Sales
28 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether any British companies are involved in the (a) manufacture and (b) sale of cluster munitions.