Question follow-through · 108454
Home Shopping: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has considered the potential merits of creating a national mail order fraud database for (a) retailers, (b) delivery companies, (c) customers and (d) other relevant parties to log delivery i
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 26 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has considered the potential merits of creating a national mail order fraud database for (a) retailers, (b) delivery companies, (c) customers and (d) other relevant parties to log delivery i
29 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Department for Business and Trade has not made an assessment on creating a national mail order fraud database. Led by the Home Office, the Government will be setting out its approach to tackling all types of fraud in its upcoming Fraud Strategy. Repor...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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14 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has reviewed the Competition and Markets Authority’s decision of 30 October 2025 to accept legally binding commitments from major housebuilders to tackle anticompetitive behaviour and ensure