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Trading Standards: East of England

Asked by Jenny Riddell-CarpenterLabourDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 5 January 2026UIN 101235

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many trading standards inspections of high street shops took place in the last 12 months in (a) Suffolk Coastal, (b) Suffolk and (c) East Anglia.

Answered by Blair McDougall

The Department for Business and Trade does not hold this information. Trading Standards inspections are the responsibility of individual Local Authorities.

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