Trading Standards - Have your say

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Welcome to our Public Consultation Hub, your opportunity to contribute to the way services are delivered in our community.

We’re committed to protecting consumers, supporting local businesses, and ensuring fair trading practices. To do this effectively, we need your input.

This page hosts a series of surveys on key themes that affect you, from new guidance, product safety and counterfeit goods to fair pricing, doorstep crime, and more. Each survey is designed to gather your views, experiences, and suggestions.

Why Your Voice Matters

  • Identify local concerns and priorities
  • Improve the way we deliver services
  • Influence policy and enforcement strategies
  • Build a safer, fairer marketplace for everyone

Get Involved

Click on any of the live surveys below to take part. Each one only takes a few minutes to complete, and your responses are completely anonymous.

Welcome to our Public Consultation Hub, your opportunity to contribute to the way services are delivered in our community.

We’re committed to protecting consumers, supporting local businesses, and ensuring fair trading practices. To do this effectively, we need your input.

This page hosts a series of surveys on key themes that affect you, from new guidance, product safety and counterfeit goods to fair pricing, doorstep crime, and more. Each survey is designed to gather your views, experiences, and suggestions.

Why Your Voice Matters

  • Identify local concerns and priorities
  • Improve the way we deliver services
  • Influence policy and enforcement strategies
  • Build a safer, fairer marketplace for everyone

Get Involved

Click on any of the live surveys below to take part. Each one only takes a few minutes to complete, and your responses are completely anonymous.

  • Single-Use Vapes Feedback

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    We have gathered views through a two-week consultation on the new guidance which concluded July 2025, with 16 residents providing feedback, of these 14 (88%) were positively supportive of the guidance, only 2 (13%) expressed constructive feedback.

    All feedback has been essential in reviewing the guidance, but also in assisting to identify various areas of improvement allowing us in our provision of a service that identifies trading malpractices and target resources where they are needed most.

    Context:

    On 1 June 2025 it became illegal in the UK to sell or supply single-use vapes under the Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (England) Regulations 2024. This ban includes any 'disposable' vapes which are not refillable and which contain a battery which cannot be recharged. It is intended to reduce the environmental harm caused by the waste from these products when they have been discarded or disposed of, and also to reduce vaping among young people.

    Staffordshire County Council is responsible for making sure the rules in the Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (England) Regulations 2024 are followed. As part of this role, the council must explain how it will use fines, warnings, and other penalties included in these rules.

Page last updated: 30 Jul 2025, 11:22 AM