Chris Renews Call for Decisive Action Against Rogue Park Home Traders

DE Rogue Traders 15Oct26

Chris Renews Call for Decisive Action Against Rogue Park Home Traders

Christopher Chope Conservative, Christchurch

Rogue traders operate with impunity in the park homes sector, yet the Government have refused to supply sufficient money to National Trading Standards to enable it to carry out a national investigation and bring those rogues to book. What is the Minister going to do about it?

Kate Dearden Minister of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade)

Regrettably, trading standards has faced a real-terms funding cut of more than 50% since 2010, under the previous Government. The system is therefore under severe strain. I back the incredible work that it does across the country and know how much support it needs. That is why we are committed to backing it and those longer-terms plans to overhaul the wider consumer protection landscape and particularly trading standards to help it continue cracking on with its brilliant job.

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