Clause 247
Housing and Regeneration Bill
3:15 pm
Iain Wright (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Communities and Local Government; Hartlepool, Labour)
I do not want to labour the point, but enforcement is a natural and necessary arm of such a mandatory measure. I shall use the risk-based approach and suggest to the hon. Gentleman that if a buyer complained to the trading standards officer, and said, “I have not got a certificate,” the officer would investigate.