UK Parliament / Open data

Consumer Rights Bill

Perhaps I may press this point a little because it is important and getting to the root of the issue now might save the Minister time

later. What is sufficient for a suspicion of an individual trader? The officer has made a test purchase and now he has prima facie information to suggest that the trader is up to something. That is straightforward and no one would see any issues around that. However, I will come back to my example. It is known that something is circulating in a town and it is likely that it has only been purchased from retailers in that town. Is that sufficient to cover all the retailers? Does that change if we are talking about eight retailers or 200 retailers? That is also possible. If it covers 200 retailers, that would certainly reduce any concerns I might have, but if it covers eight retailers, I would like to know what the cut-off number is.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
756 c491GC 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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