HMG consultation

The government opened a consultation URN09/1074 6 November 2009 to 29 January 2010 followed by a government response URN11/542 18 March 2011 and a further consultation URN12/605 & 606 23 November 2012 to 5 April 2013 on Street Trading & Pedlary Law and this page is dedicated to providing public access to progress or otherwise of pedlars.info engagement in the process. Each communication is updated daily to keep you informed so check regularly.
If you are a pedlar and support our direction we will be pleased for your comment by email. Please let us know of any errors or ommissions.
Be sure to inform other pedlars before its too late and ask them to contact us with their email so we can keep them informed.
update 18 October 2013:
Pedlar stakeholders are currenly confronted with  government BIS policy to “ignore” pedlars communications and pedlars.info contends that such policy is consistent with the corrupt intention by BIS to cover-up its own negligence since wrongly/unlawfully enabling “potential victim status” to be imposed by local authorities under street trading regulation on some pedlars in the 2009 Provision of Services Regulation Act Section 45. Questions have been asked [Aug 2013] in the House of Lords about when BIS will expunge the erroneous and harmful Section 45 from the Act:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to reverse the amendment to the Pedlars Act 1871 made by the Provision of Services Regulations 2009 (SI 2009/2999) on the bases that the amendment imperfectly transposed the European Union Services Directive.
Pedlars Third Option proposals, though ignored by BIS, remain the only viable option to resolving national legislation for street trading and pedlary and potential victims of BIS policy urge BIS to desist from covering up its negligence.
 
update 11 November 2014:
On 16 October 2014 Minister Jo Swinson at BIS published the UK government response to the Consultation URN12/605 that sought to repeal the Pedlars Act.
During November 2014 the Northern Ireland Department for Social Development published its response to the same Consultation.
As at today’s date the Scottish Government is still considering the way forward following the consultation and developments elsewhere in the UK.
Pedlars await UK.gov publication of ALL responses that lead to the BIS Report BIS/14/776.
 
 
 

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  1. 7 June 2008 Letter to HC Speaker – Roll A Agents
  2. 11 Aug 2008 Letter to Durham/BERR
  3. 18 Sept 2008 Consultation Report to Durham
  4. 4 November 2008 Letter to HC Speaker – Private bills
  5. 10 February 2009 Durham Report
  6. 2 July 2009 Boris’s new idea
  7. 12 Aug 2009 BIS Stakeholder Pre-Consultation Research
  8. 4 November 2009 – SD/Pedlars Act-BIS justification
  9. questions & answers re BIS consultation
  10. 6 Nov 2009 BIS consultation document
  11. 17 Nov 2009 pedlar emails to HMG
  12. 19 Nov 2009 BIS Fixed Penalty Notices & Seizure
  13. 22 Nov 2009 Update on Case Law
  14. 25 Nov 2009 2nd Durham Report
  15. 27 Nov 2009 BIS report edits pages 1-7
  16. 12 February 2010 Replies to BIS consultation
  17. March 2011 BIS Report on Consultation
  18. May 2011 Pedlars questions on BIS Report
  19. June 2011 – Letter to Ministers at BIS
  20. September 2011 – Letter to BIS re Minister’s letter
  21. October 2011 – Letter to BIS re Judicial Review
  22. October 2011 – Letter to BIS re Services Directive
  23. 7 June 2012 – Pedlars Act proposed amendments
  24. HC Library “Regulation of Street Traders & Pedlars”
  25. 15 June 2012 HL Written Questions
  26. Communications with BIS re URN11/542
  27. 29 September 2012 – Briefing to Minister re URN
  28. 23 November 2012 – BIS consultation URN12/605 & 606
  29. 3 December 2012 – HL Canterbury Bill Third Reading
  30. 4 December 2012 – Parallels
  31. 9 January 2013 – Q&A on URN12/605&6
  32. 11 January 2013 – Briefing & Questions re URN12/605
  33. 27 January 2013 – Third Option
  34. 28 January 2013 – BIS complaints procedure
  35. 10 February 2013 – BIS tape-measure policy
  36. 10 March 2013 – Warning to MP’s about BIS
  37. 26 March 2013 – BIS departmental fiasco
  38. 27 March 2013 – Office of Fair Trading – David Chapman
  39. 15 March 2013 – Pedlars 1st reply to consultation URN12/605
  40. 2 April 2013 – Pedlars 2nd reply to consultation URN12/605
  41. 2 July 2013 – BIS policy to ignore
  42. 29 October 2013 – communications with BIS
  43. 5 November 2013 – HC Library Reference Paper SN/HA/5693 – rebuttal
  44. 6 November 2013 – Stakeholder meeting at BIS
  45. 15 November 2013 – Official Conduct at BIS 1
  46. 18 December 2013 – HC Library update – Pedlars
  47. 1 January 2014 – Official Conduct at BIS 2
  48. 13 January 2014 – Parliament misled by corrupt use of language
  49. 4 July 2014 – House of Commons Notes – Argument for withdrawl
  50. 9 July 2014 – Parliamentary Question – Ministerial answer misleads Parliament
  51. 1 August 2014 -Metropolitan Police online info rebuttal
  52. 6 August 2014 – Avon & Somerset police – Pedlar Notice rebuttal
  53. 2 March 2015 – Stakeholder & Media Update re BIS Pedlar Consultation
  54. 1 December 2015 – BIS.GOV Stuck in Factcheck
  55. 5 December 2015 – Briefing to Government in City of London – Bishopsgate Institute
  56. 9 March 2016 – Statutory Instrument affecting the Pedlars Act