Question follow-through · 7864
Retail Trade: Trading Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to support local authorities in tackling illegal trading on high streets.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 8 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to support local authorities in tackling illegal trading on high streets.
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2026
Answer published
In 19 May 2026, the Government announced a £30 million crackdown targeting cash intensive business such as barber shops, vape stores, mini-marts and sweet shops operating on our high streets, over three years. This includes funding of £6million for Tradin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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