Trading Standards
(asked on 11th July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of any decrease in the number of trading standards officers since 2016; and what funding they will provide to local authorities to enable them effectively to enforce existing legislation in the purview of the trading standards.
Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
This question was answered on 24th July 2023
I refer the noble Lady to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Local Government and Building Safety) comments on Trading Standards: Staffing and Resources at HC volume 728, debated on Monday 20 February 2023.