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      ], "questionText" : "To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of research by GfK published on 26 January that UK consumer confidence in January rose to its highest level in two years; and what steps they are taking to sustain and build upon those findings.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1126965", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the Government plans to publish the White Paper on  modernising consumer markets.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4135", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for David Morris"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1010790", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1010790/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government is committed to ensuring markets work in the interests of ordinary people and the Consumer Green Paper contained a number of provisions which safeguard consumer rights whilst ensuring competition benefits consumers. We will continue to develop policy options across the range of measures proposed in the green paper and will respond in due course.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to respond to the Green Paper on modernising consumer markets.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4007", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dominic Raab"}
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      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Esher and Walton"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/822856", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/822856/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The then Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility hosted the EU Exit Consumer Roundtable on 2 November 2017. A Minister from the Department for Exiting the European Union also attended. It was attended by representatives from Which?, MoneySavingExpert , Citizens Advice, Citizens Advice Scotland, the Consumer Council of Northern Ireland and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3936", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andrew Griffiths"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-01-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 12 October 2017 to Question 106304, whether his Department has set a date for the roundtable event with consumer groups to discuss negotiations on the UK leaving the EU and their implications for consumers in the UK.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4571", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Gill Furniss"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/816780", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "HM Treasury"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/816780/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Competitive markets are the best way of delivering value and choice for consumers. Autumn Budget 2017 announced more resources for the Competition and Markets Authority to enable them to take more cases against companies who are not competing fairly. The government is also taking specific action to ensure that financial services markets work for consumers. For example, to improve access to affordable sources of credit, the government is increasing the number of potential members that a credit union serving a local area can have from 2 to 3 million.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The forthcoming Consumer Green Paper will set out the government\u2019s broader approach to ensuring that markets are working well for consumers and businesses.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Where it can, the government is also taking direct action to help families with the cost of essential items. For example, the government has extended the fuel duty freeze for the eighth year. This freeze has saved the average car driver £850 over the last eight years compared to what they would have been paying under the pre-2010 escalator plans.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4051", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for John Glen"}
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "John Glen"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-01-05", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to make consumer markets operate more fairly to reduce the costs of essential household items.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4648", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Laura Smith"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Laura Smith"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/816781", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/816781/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>We will issue a Consumer Green Paper in due course that will tackle areas where markets are not working for consumers.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3936", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andrew Griffiths"}
        }
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-01-05", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Consumers"}
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      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of whether markets have been found to act against consumer interests.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4648", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Laura Smith"}
      }
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Laura Smith"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/816783", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "HM Treasury"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/816783/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been given a wide range of enforcement powers to protect consumers and to take action against firms and individuals that breach the FCA\u2019s rules \u2013 including rules on consumer protection - through the Financial Services and Markets Act (2000), as amended by the Financial Services Act (2012),<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Such action includes issuing fines against firms and individuals. In the calendar year 2017, the FCA issued fines totalling £229,515,303.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) was set up by the Government to resolve individual complaints between financial services firms and their customers. If the FOS decide that a consumer has been treated unfairly, it has legal powers to force the firm to pay redress to the consumer.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4051", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for John Glen"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to increase the ability of regulators and consumer enforcement bodies to order fines against companies that have been found to have broken consumer law and to deliver redress.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4648", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Laura Smith"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/786859", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/786859/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<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 \u201cConsumer Detriment\u201d 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> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4115", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Margot James"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/177", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Gareth Thomas"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/783305", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/783305/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Government has undertaken a significant amount of work to assess the economic and fiscal implications of leaving the EU as part of continued rigorous and extensive analytical work on a range of scenarios.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>My Rt hon Friend the Prime Minister has \u200emade clear that the UK aims to agree an ambitious and comprehensive economic partnership with the EU that is of far greater scope and ambition than any existing free trade agreement.<\/p>"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4435", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Patricia Gibson"}
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