HC Deb 25 February 1983 vol 37 c547W
Mr. Greville Janner

asked the Minister for Trade from whom he has received complaints in the past year concerning abuses by doorstep salesmen; and by which local authorities he has been approached over the past two years concerning such abuses.

Dr. Vaughan

In the past year I have received about 20 complaints from, or on behalf of, individual consumers about the activities of doorstep salesmen. In the past two years, Greater Manchester council, South Yorkshire county council and Oxfordshire county council have made representations concerning the doorstep sales provisions of the Consumer Credit Act 1974.