Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government will introduce legislative proposals to protect people who have been scammed by rogue builders.

The Government is committed to strengthening consumer rights including improving consumers’ access to redress in the domestic construction sector.

The Government requires tradespeople working on our domestic household decarbonisation retrofit programmes to be TrustMark registered, and for projects to meet the PAS 2035 standard for retrofit. The Department is also working closely with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to strengthen the consumer protections available through Competent Person Schemes