HC Deb 10 December 2002 vol 396 cc186-7W
Nick Harvey

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many(a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been for trading counterfeit goods, broken down by type, under the Trademarks Act 1994, in each year since 1994. [85308]

Miss Melanie Johnson

Information about the number of prosecutions under the Trade Mark Act 1994 is not currently collated centrally and would cost a disproportionate amount to collect.

Nick Harvey

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many(a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been for trading counterfeit goods, broken down by type, under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968, in each of the last ten years. [85309]

Miss Melanie Johnson

Annex Dl of the Office of Fair Trading's Annual Report 2001 contains details of local authority prosecutions under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 for 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2001 (www.oft.gov.uk/News/Annual + report/annexes.htm). These tables are compiled from information supplied voluntarily by the local authority trading standards service and environmental health departments.