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date	26/01/2023
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 make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing penalties for firms found to have mislead consumers about their rights.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	133541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2023 answer text <p>This is an important issue which the Government has committed to act on shortly. We will introduce new civil monetary penalties for breaches of consumer law. The Government will do so through the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill which will be brought forward in this session of Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>This means that anyone ripping off consumers with misleading claims, unfair terms and conditions and hard-to-exit contracts may be penalised up to 10% of annual global turnover, or £300,000, whichever is higher.</p><p> </p><p>Under these plans, the Competition and Markets Authority will be given direct fining powers, alongside the civil courts which would be able to act on application from enforcers like sector regulators and local authority trading standards departments.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 31/01/2023 15:49:17 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

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registered interest
date	13/12/2022
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	Business: Birmingham Selly Oak
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of businesses are owned by women in Birmingham, Selly Oak constituency.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	109417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>In the UK in 2021, 19% of SMEs with employees (a three-percentage point increase on 2020) and 20% of firms with no employees (21% in 2020) were female-led. The government does not hold regional data relating to the number or proportion of female-led business.</p><p> </p><p>The Rose Review is supported by the industry-led ‘Rose Review Council for Investing in Female Entrepreneurs’ that aims to coordinate industry-led action to increase investment into female-led businesses.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has set an ambition to increase the number of female entrepreneurs by half by 2030, equivalent to 600,000 new entrepreneurs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 21/12/2022 13:03:13 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe