Agenda item

Report of the Director of Markets and Consumer Protection.

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Port Health and Public Protection providing an update on the work of the department since the last meeting. A contextual appendix to the report was tabled.

Illegal Street Trading

It was felt that there needed to be a political buy-in from Southwark to combat the issue of illegal street trading, especially illegal nut sellers. It was agreed that illegal street trading could be linked to other crime, although here was no evidence of illegal substances being sold.

The Chairman asked that the tables laying out the statistics in relation to illegal street trading be depicted with graphs that compared the different seasons year on year in future iterations of the report.

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