Question follow-through · 92804

Trading Standards: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many Trading Standards enforcement officers there were in each (a) region, (b) local authority area and (c) parliamentary constituency in each year for the past 5 years.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Answering body
Department for Business and Trade
Tabled
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
24 Nov 2025
Answer
1 Dec 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many Trading Standards enforcement officers there were in each (a) region, (b) local authority area and (c) parliamentary constituency in each year for the past 5 years.

  2. 24 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 1 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    Trading Standards enforcement officers are the responsibility of individual Local Authorities.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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