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Trading Standards: Staff

Asked by Lee AndersonReform UKDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 1 December 2025UIN 92804

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many Trading Standards enforcement officers there were in each (a) region, (b) local authority area and (c) parliamentary constituency in each year for the past 5 years.

Answered by Kate Dearden

Trading Standards enforcement officers are the responsibility of individual Local Authorities.

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