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That is the finding of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), which has discovered that total spend has dropped from £213 million to £124 million, equating to just £1.99 per person, per year.
The CTSI report also shows staffing has fallen by 53 per cent since 2009, leaving the CTSI to claim that the government is failing to adequately protect consumers and honest businesses.
Leon Livermore, chief executive of CTSI, said: “We have a situation where trading standards teams in local councils are tasked with holding multi-million-pound firms to account, with just a handful of staff.
“This is in addition to their many other responsibilities in the community like catching rogue-traders, preventing disease in the food chain and providing business support to help grow the economy.”
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