Question follow-through · 5360
Trading Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of resourcing levels in local Trading Standards services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 1 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of resourcing levels in local Trading Standards services.
3 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2026
Answer published
Trading Standards are provided by local authorities who operate independently from central government, so local authorities make decisions according to their individual needs.The final 2026-27 Local Government Finance Settlement makes available £78 billio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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