Question follow-through · 74824
Construction: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help (a) local authorities and (b) Trading Standards take action against rogue builders; and what steps her Department is taking to improve
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help (a) local authorities and (b) Trading Standards take action against rogue builders; and what steps her Department is taking to improve
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2025
Answer published
My Department does not hold the data requested. Local Authorities are responsible for determining resourcing priorities in accordance with the needs of their local electorates, and the members of those electorates will differ according to the areas where ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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