The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill strengthens consumers\u2019 rights in relation to auto-renewing contracts, enabling them to manage them more effectively.<\/p>
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Under the new rules, traders must send consumers reminder notices before a trial or contract auto-renews, or at roughly 6 month intervals for shorter renewing contracts. The notice will include information on the steps the consumer can take to bring the contract to an end. In addition, a new \u2018cooling-off period\u2019 will give consumers 14 days to cancel certain contracts after they auto-renew to a period of 12 months or more, or after a free or discounted trial.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4474", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Thirsk and Malton"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Kevin Hollinrake"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2023-07-06", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2023-07-06T10:31:38.513Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "214"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Business and Trade"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Business and Trade"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-06-26", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Business: Subscriptions"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make it her policy to require businesses offering automatically-renewing subscriptions to send consumers a reminder message with an option to opt-out before their renewal date; and if she will make a statement.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4799", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Charlotte Nichols"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Warrington North"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Charlotte Nichols"} ], "uin" : "191238"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/42338", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/42338/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Access to Work supports employed people with all types of disability; the budget is not allocated to particular disability groups in advance of applications. Existing policies on the cost effective funding of full time support workers are being enforced to ensure the programme remains available for new applicants.<\/p>
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Access to Work supports employed people with all types of disability; the budget is not allocated to particular disability groups in advance of applications. Existing policies on the cost effective funding of full time support workers are being enforced to ensure the programme remains available for new applicants.<\/p>
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There are no quotas applied to customer numbers or funding for particular disability groups.<\/p>
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There are currently a small number of investigations where charges have been made and are due to be heard in court over the summer months. We continue to monitor the system for abuse.<\/p>
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Please note that DWP only has information based on Primary Disability type. Therefore total spend on hearing impaired customers is shown below, this includes other Access to Work support. However spend relating to Deafblind customers is not available from our records.<\/p>
Department of Work and Pensions - Access To Work (<\/strong>ATW<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td><\/tr> Year<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Number of people helped with hearing impairments<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Amount spent on Hearing impairment £M<\/strong><\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> Total ATW customers<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Total ATW spend £M<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2008/09 <\/p><\/td> 4,950 <\/p><\/td> 21.7<\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> 32,130 <\/p><\/td> 69<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2009/10 <\/p><\/td> 5,450 <\/p><\/td> 28.5<\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> 37,280 <\/p><\/td> 98<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2010/11 <\/p><\/td> 5,300 <\/p><\/td> 32.7<\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> 35,820 <\/p><\/td> 107<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2011/12 <\/p><\/td> 4,960 <\/p><\/td> 34.1<\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> 30,780 <\/p><\/td> 93<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2012/13 <\/p><\/td> 5,250 <\/p><\/td> 34.5<\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> 31,460 <\/p><\/td> 95.3<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/strong><\/p>"}
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