Corporate report

Consumer safety report: enforcement arrangements and performance statistics

Describes the enforcement arrangements, and sets out statistics on performance, for 2 pieces of consumer safety legislation.

From:
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Published
23 March 2015
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Report on Part 2 Consumer Protection Act 1987: consumer safety

Ref: ISBN 9781474115988, HC 1079

PDF, 9.47 MB, 44 pages

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Report on Part 2 Consumer Protection Act 1987: consumer safety (print-ready PDF)

Ref: ISBN 9781474115971, HC 1079

PDF, 9.37 MB, 45 pages

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Details

This report describes the enforcement arrangements, and sets out statistics on performance, for 2 pieces of legislation:

  • Consumer Protection Act 1987
  • General Product Safety Regulations 2005

Both pieces of legislation protect consumers from unsafe products.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is required to lay before Parliament a report on the exercise of its functions, and those of other enforcing bodies. This report covers the period from 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2013.

Published 23 March 2015