Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the complaints received by the European Consumer Centres' Network against UK-registered companies involved in the copying of artistic design articles as a result of the time taken to implement section 74 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013.

The European Consumer Centre Network is primarily involved in cross-border consumer disputes with traders. The Government does not intervene in such complaints. Nor has it received any information from the Network in relation to complaints against UK-registered companies involved in the copying of artistic design articles. Accordingly, the Government has made no assessment of such complaints.