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<p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published an assessment of Consumer
Detriment in 2014. The Government works with key stakeholders in the consumer landscape
through the Consumer Protection Partnership<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> to better identify,
prioritise and coordinate collective action to tackle the issues causing greatest
harm to consumers.</p><p>Individual partners have produced assessments of consumer
detriment such as the “Consumer Detriment” report published by Citizens Advice in
September 2016.</p><p>The Government is committed to tackling consumer detriment and
will be publishing a consumer green paper.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Members of the CPP are
as follows: National Trading Standards (NTS), Citizens Advice, Citizens Advice Scotland,
the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
(COSLA), the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland (DfE), the Financial Conduct
Authority (FCA), the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), the Consumer Council
for Northern Ireland (CCNI), and the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA).</p><p> </p><p>
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