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Construction: Fraud

Commons · Question 18841 · Tabled 9 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 17 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Ben Maguire

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle rogue builders.

Answer

Answered by Justin Madders, 17 Dec 2024

There are a strong set of consumer law duties that apply to builders like any other trader in the UK, and the Government believes that dealing with rogue builders is primarily a matter of effective enforcement of that legislation. To this end DBT is stren...