Protecting consumers from unsafe products
Published on:This report examines the extent to which the UK’s product safety regime protects consumers from harm, focusing on the OPSS.
This report examines the extent to which the UK’s product safety regime protects consumers from harm, focusing on the OPSS.
The report examines the system protecting consumers from scams, unfair trading, and unsafe goods. BEIS has made progress since our 2011 review, but needs to do more, particularly in the context of the growth of e-commerce.
Unfair treatment of consumers, ranging from pressure selling to systematic scams by criminals, is costing billions of pounds each year – but the system for enforcing consumer law is not delivering value for money.
This report looks at how effectively government met the needs of clinically extremely vulnerable through the shielding programme.
The National Audit Office has examined the role of of the Department for Transport in assessing the revised proposals for light rail schemes in Leeds, Manchester and South Hampshire. Funding for these three schemes was originally approved by the Department in 2000 and 2001. But substantial increases in projected costs led to the Department withdrawing […]