Part of Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:30 pm on 27 June 2023.
Paul Scully
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
2:30,
27 June 2023
A lot of that will be done through our relationship with Citizens Advice and trading standards. When I covered this brief a year ago and held the position currently held by the Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade, my hon. Friend Kevin Hollinrake, we continually did work for consumers, whether that was on this kind of redress, work through the CMA or work through Citizens Advice and trading standards. Clearly, given that we are changing the regime to make things faster and more effective, we will want to shout about it, because people need to be aware of it, and that will be part of a wider awareness scheme. I cannot give the hon. Gentleman chapter and verse on the campaign, because I am not running it.
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