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Asked by Matt VickersConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 9 March 2026UIN 116904

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of trends in consumer satisfaction with customer service provision across key regulated sectors.

Answered by Kate Dearden

Access to customer service channels is not something that has been raised recently by my Department or the consumer groups and representative bodies we regularly meet.

My Department regularly reviews research, and notes that the most recent UK Customer Satisfaction Index found 83.2% of customer experiences were right first time, the highest recorded since the UKCSI has been running (2008).

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