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1129125

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Consumers: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish his Department's consumer white paper; and whether the white paper will include proposals on the mortgage market.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	259313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s Consumer White Paper is due to be published later this year. It will report back on the issues raised in the Consumer Green Paper.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 06/06/2019 13:00:14 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1109088

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Consumers: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will ensure that the Friends against Scams training tools and workshops operated under National Trading Standards are offered to people throughout the United Kingdom.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	239899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Friends Against Scams is a National Trading Standards (NTS) Scams Team initiative, which aims to protect people from becoming victims of scams by empowering communities to &quot;Take a Stand Against Scams&quot;. The team works closely with local Trading Standards Services in all areas of the UK to disseminate Friends Against Scams training into local communities. The team also works with national and local organisations that have pledged their support to the initiative across the UK. Online training and free access to materials are widely available for anyone to use across the UK on the Friends Against Scams website, and more than 200,000 ‘friends’ have been trained.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 08/04/2019 16:07:16 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1077114

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Consumers: Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure the long-term protection of UK consumers after their financial support for the UK European Consumer Centre ends in March 2020.
tabling member printed	Baroness Wilcox
uin	HL14034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>In the event of a no deal exit, the Government has committed to fund the UK’s European Consumer Centre for at least one year. We will use this time to assess the landscape post EU exit and determine the most effective way to provide consumers with advice about cross-border purchases.</p><p> </p><p>However, delivering the deal negotiated with the EU remains the Government’s top priority. The UK remains committed to providing the highest standards of protection to UK consumers. For example, we will publish a comprehensive Consumer White Paper this year to ensure markets provide consumers with competitive prices and quality products and services.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 05/03/2019 15:31:01 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	1727 label Biography information for Baroness Wilcox

1077115

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Consumers: Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they to ensure that cross-border consumer protection data to inform national and international enforcement continues once funding for the UK European Consumer Centre ends in March 2020.
tabling member printed	Baroness Wilcox
uin	HL14035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>Delivering the deal negotiated with the EU remains the Government’s top priority. This has not changed. However, the Government must prepare for every eventuality. In the event of a no deal exit, the Government has committed to fund the UK’s European Consumer Centre for at least one year. We will use this time to assess the landscape post EU exit and determine the most effective way to provide consumers with advice about cross-border purchases.</p><p> </p><p>In the event of a no deal exit, UK and EU enforcers will no longer be obliged to cooperate with each other under the terms of the CPC Regulation and Injunctions Directive. However, under the Enterprise Act 2002, UK public bodies will continue to have a power to share information they hold in their capacity as enforcers under Part 8 of the Enterprise Act with their foreign counterparts.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 05/03/2019 15:32:21 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	1727 label Biography information for Baroness Wilcox

1077116

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Consumers: Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to replace the UK European Consumer Centre’s role in sharing intelligence within the European enforcement network after March 2020, to ensure that cross-border criminal breaches and so-called "problem" traders are identified and dealt with appropriately.
tabling member printed	Baroness Wilcox
uin	HL14036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>Delivering the deal negotiated with the EU remains the Government’s top priority. This has not changed. However, the Government must prepare for every eventuality. In the event of a no deal exit, the Government has committed to fund the UK’s European Consumer Centre for at least one year. We will use this time to assess the landscape post EU exit and determine the most effective way to support consumers shopping across borders.</p><p> </p><p>In the event of a no deal exit, UK and EU enforcers will no longer be obliged to cooperate with each other under the terms of the CPC Regulation and Injunctions Directive. However, under the Enterprise Act 2002, UK public bodies will continue to have a power to share information they hold in their capacity as enforcers under Part 8 of the Enterprise Act with their foreign counterparts.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 05/03/2019 15:33:01 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	1727 label Biography information for Baroness Wilcox

838594

registered interest
date	07/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Consumers: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to bring forward the consumer green paper.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	127414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>We will issue a Consumer Green Paper in due course that will tackle areas where markets are not working for consumers.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 20/02/2018 14:52:12 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

820916

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Consumers: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to repeal the incorporation in UK law of the Consumer Protection Cooperation Regulation after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	122334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The purpose of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill is to provide a functioning statute book on the day we leave the EU, and ensure that it is for our sovereign Parliament (and in some cases for the devolved legislatures) to make any future changes.</p><p>The Bill will convert all directly-applicable EU legislation - that is regulations, decisions and tertiary legislation - as it applies in the UK immediately before exit, into domestic law and will preserve all the laws which have been made in the UK to implement EU obligations.</p><p>Any future changes will be subject to parliamentary scrutiny.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 16/01/2018 14:39:53 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

802311

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Consumers: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish the consumer green paper; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	117998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 6 December 2017 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-11-30/116927/" target="_blank">116927</a> to the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 13/12/2017 15:59:02 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

798020

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Consumers: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on what date his Department plans to publish the Consumer and Markets Green Paper.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	116927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government will issue a Consumer Green Paper in due course that will tackle areas where markets are not working for consumers and business.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/12/2017 13:55:46 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

793149

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Consumers: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government has taken in response to the findings of the National Audit Office report entitled Protecting consumers from scams, unfair trading and unsafe goods, published in December 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin and Harpenden
tabling member printed	Bim Afolami
uin	114934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government has carefully considered the findings of the National Audit Office’s December 2016 report. As recommended in the report, the Consumer Protection Partnership is taking action to further improve the Partnership’s assessment of consumer detriment, including through the Consumer Detriment Survey, and taking action to improve the sharing of intelligence both within and outside the Partnership.</p><p> </p><p>The forthcoming Consumer Green Paper will also closely examine markets which are not working fairly for consumers.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 29/11/2017 14:08:41 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami