Question follow-through · 91446
Consumers: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to tackle rogue traders and protect consumers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 17 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to tackle rogue traders and protect consumers.
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2025
Answer published
Consumer legislation sets out protections for consumers. The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 strengthens consumer law enforcement by giving the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) new administrative powers, and the CMA and courts t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to increase uptake of statutory paternity leave and pay.
Employment Law
11 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that employment law protects workers engaged in collective bargaining or union recognition processes from redundancy or dismissal.
Arts and Technology: Staff
12 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that workers in the tech and creative sectors are able to organise and participate in trade union activity.
Aluminium: Waste Disposal
25 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of aluminium scrap exports to non-OECD markets; and what trade or regulatory measures his Department is considering to prevent the leakage