Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 18841

Construction: Fraud

Tabled: 9 December 2024
Answered: 17 December 2024

Question

Ben Maguire

Liberal DemocratNorth Cornwall

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

Answer

Justin Madders
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...

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