HC Deb 31 January 1992 vol 202 cc724-5W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on how many occasions the powers under the Estate Agents Act 1979 have been used to prohibit unfit persons from doing estate agency work.

Mr. Leigh

The Director General of Fair Trading has used his powers under the Act to prohibit 150 persons from doing estate agency work and a further nine persons from doing certain types of estate agency work.