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<p>Given the wide variety of legislation which Trading Standards can enforce, I am
limiting my answer to consumer law.</p><p> </p><p>Where a company has committed a
criminal breach of consumer law under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading
Regulations (2008), Trading Standards can prosecute in the criminal court and the
court can impose a fine or imprisonment for a serious offence.</p><p> </p><p>However,
there are no equivalent sanctions available to Trading Standards in the civil courts
and the Government has therefore committed to introducing court based civil sanctions
for breaches of civil law. We are also considering further options to ensure that
our system of consumer protection provides a robust response to both local and national
threats following the Modernising Consumer Markets Green Paper in 2018.</p>
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