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Question reference: S6W-30390

Date lodged: 19 December 2024
Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 January 2025

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what work it has carried out with Local Authority Trading Standards (LATS) to ensure that the public can have a high level of confidence in LATS reports.

Answer

The Scottish Government is a member of the Trading Standards Policy and Coordination Group. This Group is coordinated by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) as the representative organisation for local government in Scotland. The Group seek to provide:

strategic leadership of the trading standards function across Scotland;
and effective co-ordination of trading standards priorities between local and national government and recruitment and retention of trading standards staff.

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