§ Mr. OatenTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many consumer codes are awaiting approval by(a) her Department and (b) the Office of Fair Trading. [R] [188823]
§ Mr. SutcliffeThe DTI has no role is the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) Consumer Codes Approval System.
We are advised by the OFT that six codes have completed the first stage of the process and are working towards OFT approval. In addition, OFT have received approaches from a further 40 organisations and of these 13 have already made formal applications.