Question follow-through · 22492
Retail Trade: Unfair Practices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support legitimate independent shopkeepers who face unfair competition from cash-only premises operating under investigation for illicit trad
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- Answering body
- Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support legitimate independent shopkeepers who face unfair competition from cash-only premises operating under investigation for illicit trad
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2026
Answer published
Illicit trade, money laundering and related crime committed using high street property undermines legitimate businesses, discourages investment, and contributes to the decline of high streets. BIST is supporting the new High Streets Organised Crime Unit, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Manufacturing Industries: East Midlands
2 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what industrial support his Department has allocated to the East Midlands.
Manufacturing Industries: Government Assistance
2 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support home-grown industrial suppliers.
Cement: Industry
2 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 15472 on Cement, what proportion of cement used domestically was produced in the UK in each of the last 10 years.
Jaguar Land Rover
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what support his Department is providing to workers affected by the reduction of roles at Jaguar Land Rover.
Jaguar Land Rover
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of Jaguar Land Rover's job cuts on automotive (a) supply chain businesses and (b) logistics operations in (i) Mercia
Manufacturing Industries: Leicestershire
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to safeguard engineering and advanced manufacturing jobs in (a) Leicester and (b) Leicestershire.
Cars: Manufacturing Industries
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to maintain the competitiveness of UK car manufacturing in the context of industrial electricity costs and Zero Emission Vehicle mandate targets
Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of financial pressures facing the UK automotive sector.
Capital Investment
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to tackle structural barriers to private capital investment.