Subject	Predicate	Object
9BJFRMpP	a	Resource
		Answer
		Written answer
	answer has question	pAMr5kmn
	answer has answering person	Kevin Paul Hollinrake
	answer text	<p>This is an important issue which the Government has committed to act on shortly. We will introduce new civil monetary penalties for breaches of consumer law. The Government will do so through the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill which will be brought forward in this session of Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>This means that anyone ripping off consumers with misleading claims, unfair terms and conditions and hard-to-exit contracts may be penalised up to 10% of annual global turnover, or £300,000, whichever is higher.</p><p> </p><p>Under these plans, the Competition and Markets Authority will be given direct fining powers, alongside the civil courts which would be able to act on application from enforcers like sector regulators and local authority trading standards departments.</p>
	answer given date	2023-01-31
	answer has answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	written answer has answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	answering body has written answer	9BJFRMpP
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	answering body has answer	9BJFRMpP
pAMr5kmn	question has answer	9BJFRMpP
Kevin Paul Hollinrake	answering person has answer	9BJFRMpP