Financial: Consumer Affairs Links
- Advertising Standards Authority
Includes codes of Advertising and Sales Promotion, Annual Report, adjudications, research reports and surveys. - Confident Consumers
Access and information service run by Department of Trade and Industry. Links to a variety of other useful consumer sites. - Energywatch
Advice and information from the UK gas and electricity watchdog. - Financial Services Authority
Home site of the single statutory regulator responsible for regulating deposit-taking, insurance and investment business. Includes FSA register, searchable by firm name or number and Handbook Online. - Food Standards Agency
Includes scientific information, details on food hygiene, labelling, press releases, regulation, complaints and enforcement. - Mailing Preference Service
Includes Telephone Preference Service and Fax Preference Service. Register here to stop unwanted direct mailshots, sales calls and faxes. - National Consumer Council
Contains news and press information, downloadable reports and archive dating back to 1996. - Office of Fair Trading
Includes Codes of Practice, text of relevant Acts, downloadable leaflets and press releases dating back to 1998. - Recall Announcements
Details of latests UK, US and Australian &c. product recalls. - Scottish Consumer Council
Contains reports and consultation responses from 1998 on as well as news items. - Trading Standards Central
One stop shop for consumer protection information in the UK. Supported and maintained by TSI, the Trading Standards Institute. - UK National Statistics
Figures on a wide range of social & economic topics. - Vehicle & Operator Services Agency
Work of agency involves processing applications for licences to operate lorries and buses, registering bus services, vehicle testing schemes, enforcing legal standards and regulations and investigating vehicle accidents, defects and recalls. Site search engine. Recalls Bulletins Jan. 1998 - Dec. 2001 and other publications downloadable.
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