Work Areas

National Trading Standards uses grants provided by Government to deliver specific Trading Standards related work, around England and Wales. It aims to protect both consumers and legitimate businesses. NTS delivers its work via a set of specialist national and regional teams and by providing funds to Local Authority Trading Standards to deliver work in NTS priority areas.

Current priorities include: e-crime, mass marketing scams, doorstep crime, fair trading, letting agency frauds, intellectual property crime, illicit tobacco and illicit vapes.

• National Trading Standards eCrime Team
• National Trading Standards Scams Team
• National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Teams
• National Trading Standards Intelligence Team
• National Trading Standards Regional Investigations Teams

Other Work Areas:

• Feed Hygiene Delivery
• Work with the Advertising Standards Authority
• Disrupt the supply of illicit tobacco
• Tackle the supply of illicit vaping products