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A Member of the Scottish Parliament has called for more funding for trading standards
Posted 17 February 2022 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Inside Trading Standards|Scotland
UPDATES: CTSI’s Scottish Branch has backed calls for renewed investment in trading standards as staffing levels fall, retirements loom and post-Brexit product safety, pandemic support and market surveillance demands intensify across Scotland.
CTSI’s Scottish Branch has welcomed calls by a Member of the Scottish Parliament for more funding for trading standards.
Fiona Hyslop, a member of the Scottish National Party, said the trading standards service is struggling to recruit staff in the face of funding cuts by the UK Government.
Budget cuts have left local authorities with fewer than 239 enforcement staff in Scotla...
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