- Request
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Rogue Traders.
Please could you provide raw data on the number of reports of rogue traders*, per year, for the last five years within your jurisdiction. Please break down your figures separately, by each year.
Of these reports, please provide a breakdown of the category of trade that is being reported, based on the following (or your own categories if you have them):
Bricklayer
Carpenter
Electrician**
Gas safety engineer
Painter & Decorator
Plasterer
Plumber
Roofer
Scaffolder
Tiler
Heat Pump Installation Company
Other [specify?]
Regarding the above reports of rogue traders, please provide a numeric breakdown of the reports according to the issue they relate to, using the categories below (or your own categories if you have them). Please break down your figures separately, by each year:
Contractual
Safety
Fraud
Uncompleted work
* Definition: Rogue trading encompasses a range of activity where the trader is acting outside of the Law and to the detriment of the consumer. Activities largely relate to substandard services, including products not meeting the required weights and measures and activities such as substandard electrical and building work.
** Where reports under the 'Electrician' category relate to the installation of decarbonising technologies, such as 'solar PVs', 'electric vehicle charging points', and 'battery storage systems', please provide a separate numeric breakdown of these reports, by each year. - Decision
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Lincolnshire Trading Standards do not have a separate complaint category for ‘rogue trader’. In the main the reports attached will be recorded under doorstep crime.
The table attached provides the number of doorstep crime complaints reported to Lincolnshire Trading Standards over the last 5 years.
Reports attached will either involve a consumer based in Lincolnshire, a trader based in Lincolnshire, or both a consumer and trader based in Lincolnshire
Should you require the attachment mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and this can be provided.
- Reference number
- FOI 10587901
- Date request received
- 20/09/24
- Date of decision
- 04/10/24