| Heading: |
Locksmiths: Regulation |
| Question ID: |
1806772 |
| UIN: |
55205 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5000 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Alistair Strathern
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Alistair Strathern
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of regulating the locksmith industry to protect people from rogue locksmiths. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-04 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4418 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Justin Madders
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| Answering Member handle: |
justinmadders
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@justinmadders
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| Answer text: |
The UK's framework for occupational regulation upholds public protection, while ensuring regulatory burdens on industry are proportionate. Although the locksmithing profession is not subject to statutory regulation, several self-regulating trade associati... |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |