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Certificated enforcement agents in law and in Parliament

What the statute book and the parliamentary record say about certificated enforcement agents — searched by 4 phrases, counted, and published with what each phrase catches by mistake.

Regulator
HMCTS
Statutory basis
Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 sch.12; Certification of Enforcement Agents Regulations 2014
Register
The profession on this site

The oldest hit is the least trustworthy figure here. Two things make it so, and both are visible in this collection.

The oldest documents are the likeliest to use the word in another sense. The oldest hit for “solicitor” is the Taxation Act 1640, and its only occurrence of the word is “Solicitor Generall to the Kings most excellent Majestie”.

And a hit is not always enacted text. legislation.gov.uk’s revised texts carry its own editorial annotations — notes recording that a provision was amended or applied by something later — and the index reads them. The oldest hit for “notary” is the Ecclesiastical Licences Act 1533, whose only occurrence of the word is the note “S. 11 applied by Public Notaries Act 1843 (c. 90), s. 5”. The 1533 text does not contain it.

When the law mentioned them

1290s 77 in the busiest decade 2020s

Documents per decade, by the year the document itself carries. This is the revised statute book: an Act repealed long ago is generally not on legislation.gov.uk at all, so the early decades are thinner than the history was.

When Parliament mentioned them

1800s “enforcement agent” — 31 in the busiest decade 2020s

Spoken and written contributions containing the phrase, by decade. Hansard’s digitised record begins with the 1803 session, so a decade before that is absent rather than quiet. Collected for the profession’s own name only; the other phrases below have totals but no series.

What was searched for, and what it catches

PhraseWhat it is LegislationHansard Debates
“enforcement agent” The profession 42 59 0
“certificated bailiff” A historic name 14 12 0
“bailiff” A historic name 292 1,806 25
“High Court enforcement officer” The profession 12 7 0

What these phrases catch that is not this profession.

  • “enforcement agent” — The term of art since the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 Sch. 12. Also used in legislation for officers enforcing regimes that have nothing to do with taking control of goods.
  • “bailiff” — The broadest phrase here by far, and the least trustworthy. It catches the Bailiff of Jersey and the Bailiff of Guernsey, who are those islands' senior judges rather than enforcement agents: 54 of the 292 documents it returns name Jersey or Guernsey in the title alone, and that is a floor. It also catches the bailiff of a manor.

Nothing is filtered out on the strength of these. A sweep that dropped what it judged irrelevant could not be checked, and the size of the wrong-sense class is itself worth knowing.

Legislation named after them

8 documents whose title contains one of these phrases — the law that is about this profession rather than merely mentioning it.

The Acts

89 Acts of a Parliament or Assembly mention this profession, against 243 statutory instruments and other secondary material.

YearActMatched
2026 Crime and Policing Act 2026 enforcement agent
2020 United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 bailiff
2019 Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 Scotland enforcement agent
2017 Digital Economy Act 2017 High Court enforcement officer
2016 Wales enforcement agent
2015 Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 Northern Ireland bailiff
2013 Crime and Courts Act 2013 enforcement agent, certificated bailiff, bailiff
2008 Education and Skills Act 2008 enforcement agent
2008 Finance Act 2008 enforcement agent
2008 London Local Authorities and Transport for London Act 2008 bailiff
2007 Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 2007 Scotland bailiff
2007 London Local Authorities Act 2007 certificated bailiff, bailiff
2007 Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 enforcement agent, bailiff
2004 Traffic Management Act 2004 certificated bailiff, bailiff
2003 Courts Act 2003 bailiff
2003 Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 2003 Scotland bailiff
1996 Finance Act 1996 enforcement agent
1995 Environment Act 1995 bailiff
1991 Road Traffic Act 1991 certificated bailiff, bailiff
1989 Water Act 1989 bailiff
1986 Salmon Act 1986 bailiff
1984 County Courts Act 1984 bailiff
1984 Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Act 1984 bailiff
1983 Representation of the People Act 1983 bailiff
1977 Administration of Justice Act 1977 bailiff
1977 Criminal Law Act 1977 bailiff
1975 House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 bailiff
1975 Recess Elections Act 1975 bailiff
1975 Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 bailiff
1972 Local Government Act 1972 bailiff
1971 Courts Act 1971 bailiff
1970 Agriculture Act 1970 bailiff
1969 Tweed Fisheries Act 1969 bailiff
1967 Diseases of Fish Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 (repealed) Northern Ireland bailiff
1966 Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 Northern Ireland bailiff
1951 Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Protection) (Scotland) Act 1951 (repealed) bailiff
1926 Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act 1926 bailiff
1925 Law of Property Act 1925 bailiff
1925 Settled Land Act 1925 bailiff
1908 Post Office Act 1908 bailiff
1895 Law of Distress Amendment Act 1895 bailiff
1888 Law Of Distress Amendment Act 1888 (repealed) bailiff
1887 Sheriffs Act 1887 bailiff
1883 Municipal Corporations Act 1883 bailiff
1868 Indictable Offences Act Amendment Act 1868 bailiff
1868 Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1868 bailiff
1859 Tweed Fisheries Amendment Act 1859 bailiff
1859 Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act 1859 bailiff
1857 Tweed Fisheries Act 1857 bailiff
1851 Criminal Justice Administration Act 1851 bailiff
1843 Hosiery Act 1843 (repealed 5.11.1993) bailiff
1840 Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1840 bailiff
1838 Judgments Act 1838 bailiff
1833 Fines and Recoveries Act 1833 bailiff
1787 Duchy of Lancaster Act 1787 bailiff
1700 Minehead Harbour Act 1700 bailiff
1700 Taxation: Members of Parliament Act 1700 bailiff
1698 Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698 bailiff
1698 Great Yarmouth Haven and Pier Duties Act 1698 bailiff
1697 Taxation (No. 2) Act 1697 bailiff
1696 Land Tax Act 1696 bailiff
1695 Duchy of Lancaster Act 1695 bailiff
1695 Taxation Act 1695 bailiff
1694 General Pardon Act 1694 bailiff
1694 Mutiny (No. 2) Act 1694 bailiff
1694 Taxation (No. 3) Act 1694 bailiff
1692 Estreats (Personal Representatives) Act 1692 bailiff
1692 Land Tax Act 1692 bailiff
1692 Pleadings in Actions Act 1692 bailiff
1691 Land Tax Act 1691 bailiff
1691 Poll Tax Act 1691 bailiff
1690 Taxation Act 1690 bailiff
1688 Great Yarmouth Haven and Pier Repairs Act 1688 bailiff
1670 Yarmouth Haven and Pier Repairs (Duties) Act 1670 bailiff
1667 Accounts of Public Moneys Act 1667 bailiff
1667 Public Accountants Act 1667 bailiff
1663 Bedford Level Act 1663 bailiff
1663 Hearth Money Act 1663 bailiff
1662 Poor Relief Act 1662 bailiff
1640 Stannaries Court Act 1640 bailiff
1640 Taxation (No. 3) Act 1640 bailiff
1640 Taxation (No. 8) Act 1640 bailiff
1640 Taxation Act 1640 bailiff
1640 Triennial Act 1640 bailiff
1627 Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627 bailiff
1625 Taxation (No. 2) Act 1625 bailiff
1571 Oxford and Cambridge Act 1571 bailiff
1322 Statutes of the Exchequer 1322 bailiff
1297 Magna Carta (1297) bailiff

The instruments

The 120 most recent of 243 statutory instruments and other secondary documents.

Which statute book

LegislatureDocuments
United Kingdom295
Retained EU law18
Northern Ireland9
Scotland6
Wales4

These professions are regulated in England and Wales, but the search is not restricted to it: a Scottish instrument mentioning solicitors is about Scottish solicitors, who are a different profession, and dropping it silently would have been a judgement the reader could not check.

In Parliament

1,884 contributions, 25 debates and 248 written answers mention one of these phrases. Summed across phrases, so a speech naming both the profession and its regulator is counted twice.

Debates on “bailiff”

25 debates whose title or text carries the phrase.

What was said, on “enforcement agent”

24 of 59 contributions, newest first. A sample, not the record.

Diolch, Mr Western. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for York Outer (Mr Charters) for securing this debate on a very important subject. The Government share his concern to ensure that the public are protected against inappropriate enforcement action, an

Alex Davies-Jones, Regulation of the Bailiff Sector , 11 February 2025 (Commons)

The Dartford crossing linking Essex and Kent is a key piece of transport infrastructure in my constituency. However, since moving to a new charging system last year, there have been serious failings in the administration of the Dart charge. Problems incl

Jen Craft, Transport Infrastructure , 21 November 2024 (Commons)

I beg to move, That this House has considered the provision of cavity wall insulation under Government grants. I start by thanking you, Mrs Latham, for chairing this important debate. What a pleasure it is to see you. The problem I am going to o

Holly Lynch, Cavity Wall Insulation , 26 March 2024 (Commons)

I have already made some remarks on clause 145, but I will just echo my final question. I asked the Minister about the power for public designated enforcers to apply for the imposition of a monetary penalty and why that power has been withheld from priva

Seema Malhotra, Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (Tenth sitting) , 27 June 2023 (Commons)

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, in her very clear and lengthy exposition of the position. I applaud her efforts and seek to follow in her footsteps. In his Written Statement on 18 November, the Under-Secret

Lord Thomas of Gresford, Taking Control of Goods (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 , 13 January 2022 (Lords)

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate, in particular the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, whose Motion gave rise to it. The Motion highlights concern about whether debtors have been overcharged in respect of the VAT

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar, Taking Control of Goods (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 , 13 January 2022 (Lords)

My Lords, I rise to move my Motion to Regret Statutory Instrument 1288—enforced in England and Wales—on taking control of goods. Today’s debate provides an opportunity to highlight the fact that since 2014, debtors have been wrongly charged VAT on the en

Baroness Meacher, Taking Control of Goods (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 , 13 January 2022 (Lords)

I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the Public Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction) (England) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021, No. 362). It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Efford. The statutory inst

Alex Chalk, Public Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction) (England) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 , 21 April 2021 (Commons)

My Lords, the instrument before us today prevents enforcement agents—bailiffs—from attending residential premises in England to execute a writ or warrant of possession except in the most serious circumstances. The House will be familiar with the structur

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar, Public Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction) (England) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 , 19 April 2021 (Lords)

My Lords, the instrument before us prevents enforcement agents—bailiffs—attending residential premises in England to execute a writ or warrant of possession, except in the most serious circumstances. The House will be familiar with the structure and cont

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar, Public Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 , 18 March 2021 (Lords)

My Lords, I support Amendment 67 and if it comes to a vote, the Green group will vote for it. It was a particularly nasty part of the Data Protection Act 2018, which contained provisions that allow the near-unlimited sharing of personal data for the purp

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb, Domestic Abuse Bill , 15 March 2021 (Lords)

May I say that the Government are acutely aware of the point that my hon. Friend properly makes? There is a balance to strike here, not least to consider article 1 of the first protocol to the European convention on human rights—in other words, the right

Alex Chalk, Public Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 , 9 March 2021 (Commons)

My Lords, this draft instrument prevents enforcement agents—bailiffs—attending residential premises in England to execute a writ or warrant of possession except in the most serious circumstances. The instrument applies to enforcement action in England. I

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar, Public Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction) (England) Regulations 2021 , 2 February 2021 (Lords)

I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the Public Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction) (England) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021, No. 15). It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley. The instrument before us today

Alex Chalk, Public Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction) (England) Regulations 2021 , 26 January 2021 (Commons)

My Lords, this instrument prevents enforcement agents—bailiffs—from entering residential premises in England to execute a writ or warrant of possession until 11 January, except in the most serious circumstances. The purpose of this measure is to protect

Baroness Scott of Bybrook, Public Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction and Taking Control of Goods) (England) Regulations 2020 , 8 December 2020 (Lords)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David, on this cool Christmas evening. I will start with the aspects of the instrument that the Opposition consider positive. The measures in the regulations will come as a relief to people up and

Peter Kyle, Public Health (Coronavirus) (Protection From Eviction and Taking Control of Goods) (England) Regulations 2020 , 7 December 2020 (Commons)

My Lords, in a Statement on 22 July, the Government set out their initial response to the call for evidence on the enforcement agent reforms. We intend to make body-worn cameras mandatory for private enforcement agents and the complaints system against a

Lord Keen of Elie, Bailiff Reforms , 17 October 2019 (Lords)

That is a very interesting point, which I just highlighted—three of my hon. Friends raised the issue of whom the action is taken against. I know my hon. Friend feels strongly about this, and it is something he has talked to me about before. Before I t

Lucy Frazer, Bailiffs: Regulatory Reform , 9 January 2019 (Commons)

May I first put on record what a doughty campaigner the hon. Gentleman has been on this issue? I very much hope that the proposals that we will be putting in place in April will meet with his approval. We are putting in place a governance system that will

Shailesh Vara, Bailiff Reform , 4 February 2014 (Commons)

5: Insert the following new Clause— “Enforcement by taking control of goods (1) Schedule 12 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (procedure for taking control of goods) is amended as follows. (2) In paragraph 17 (enforcement agent may use

Crime and Courts Bill [HL] , 25 March 2013 (Lords)

The balance of our reforms is to encourage compliance by debtors, including by encouraging the use of controlled goods agreements, which allow debtors to keep their possessions but enter into an agreed payment plan with the enforcement agent. There is a d

Crime and Courts Bill [HL] , 25 March 2013 (Lords)

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, for explaining his thinking behind this amendment. He described what are, indeed, horrendous accounts. There have been debates over many years about this problem. Let me start by saying that we unde

Baroness Northover, Crime and Courts Bill [HL] , 2 July 2012 (Lords)

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, for bringing the attention of the House back to these important issues relating to debtors, in particular vulnerable debtors. Like me, he has spent two evenings here waiting for this amendment to be called, but he has

Lord Bach, Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill , 5 March 2008 (Lords)

The hon. Gentleman appositely points out that this is a sort of barrister-fest, given the background of the three Front-Bench spokespeople. I had not really digested that point, but I assert that our proceedings are none the worse for that. I have never

Vera Baird, Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill [Lords] , 27 June 2007 (Commons)

What was said, on “certificated bailiff”

All 12 contributions, newest first.

I congratulate the hon. Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) on securing this important debate and the hon. Member for Makerfield (Yvonne Fovargue), whom I followed on the occasion of our maiden speeches, on her speech. It is a particular pleasure

Sir George Hollingbery, Debt Advice and Debt Management , 1 December 2011 (Commons)

The powers should not, in my view, be used by anybody who is not a certificated bailiff; it would be necessary for that certification to have been attained before anyone could use the powers. We urgently need to bring in a coherent code, because the abus

Vera Baird, Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill [Lords] , 5 March 2007 (Commons)

First, have the Government any idea as to the timetable for the issue of such regulations? In other words, will the Lord Chancellor's review unduly delay the control of bailiffs which we should all like to see? Secondly, we welcome the introduction of pre

Local Government Finance Bill , 18 February 1992 (Lords)

Lords amendment: No. 74, to insert the following new clause—Enforcement— (".—(1) In this section"certificated bailiff", means any person authorised to act as such under subsection (6) below; and"a Part II debt" means any sum which is—(a) payable under, o

Before Clause 69 , 8 July 1991 (Commons)

(b) as to the requirements which must be satisfied before any person takes, with a view to enforcing the payment of— (i) a Part II debt; or (ii) such class or classes of Part II debts as may be so specified, any other step of a kind specified by the order

Road Traffic Bill , 13 June 1991 (Lords)

My Lords, I have a few brief questions for the Minister. In respect of subsection (5), is it usual for security to be required from certificated bailiff? What shape does it take? What type of situations is it supposed to cover?

Lord Clinton-Davis, Road Traffic Bill , 13 June 1991 (Lords)

Before Clause 73, insert the following new clause: ("Enforcement .—(l) In this section— "certificated bailiff", means any person authorised to act as such under subsection (6) below; and "a Part II debt" means any sum which is— (a) payable under, or by vi

Road Traffic Bill , 13 June 1991 (Lords)

The question of costs will be regarded as incidental. On the powers dealing with an appeal, the person authorised to execute the distraint would be a certificated bailiff; that is, a person certificated for that purpose, not an employee of the Secretary

The Lord Chancellor, Child Support Bill Hl , 21 March 1991 (Lords)

Perhaps I may ask the noble and learned Lord just one question. Who will levy distress on behalf of the Secretary of State? Will it be a servant of the agency acting in the course of his employment or a certificated bailiff? I ask that because the NCC h

Lord Prys-Davies, Child Support Bill Hl , 21 March 1991 (Lords)

I have seldom listened to a more ineffective speech than that made by the hon. Member for Woolwich, West (Mr. Turner). Apparently its justification is his allegation that no constructive proposal has been made from this side, but perhaps he will remembe

Mr. David Weitzman (Stoke Newington and Hackney, North), Housing, London , 16 July 1964 (Commons)

The origin of this short Adjournment debate is that a constituent of mine, some months ago, wrote to me complaining about the attitude of Income Tax collectors with regard to a debt of his which amounted to about £15. They were threatening to seize his

Mr. William Teeling (Brighton, Pavilion), Post-War Credits (Income Tax) , 1 August 1956 (Commons)

It must be admitted that it is rather an invidious task for the latest recruit to the Treasury Bench to oppose a Bill introduced by my right hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Sir Agg-Gardner), but he would be the first to admit that this subject mu

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Boyd Merriman), Hire-Purchase System Bill , 4 May 1928 (Commons)

What was said, on “bailiff”

24 of 1,806 contributions, newest first. A sample, not the record.

I wish the new Prime Minister the very best, and welcome his commitment to a better kind of politics. Nationally, 4.4 million people are now in council tax debt, 1.2 million more than in the previous year, and last year 1.7 million instructions were m

Iqbal Mohamed, Direction of Government , 1 September 2026 (Commons)

I never thought he would represent an area of Yorkshire, in England. [Laughter.] Ordered, That Mr Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the

Sir Lindsay Hoyle, House of Commons , 18 May 2026 (Commons)

Mr Speaker, two of my colleagues have been elected to Scotland’s national Parliament, so this is a bittersweet task for me. Ordered, That the Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ for the electing of a Member

Kirsty Blackman, House of Commons , 18 May 2026 (Commons)

Working with the charity StepChange, we have seen that some councils are too often moving too quickly towards bailiff enforcement action. Would the Minister consider issuing best practice to councils to ensure that vulnerable households are supported ins

Mr Luke Charters, Council Tax Debt Collection , 13 April 2026 (Commons)

My Lords, I declare my interests in the private rented sector, with cottage lettings in Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire. Sadly, there is not just the current delay of up to 15 months in the court granting a repossession; there is then an additional dela

Lord Carrington, Renters’ Rights Act: Definition of Court Readiness , 24 March 2026 (Lords)

I do not think we should exaggerate the situation as it currently stands. The Ministry of Justice quarterly possession statistics show that median timeliness for claim to order is 7.3 weeks and that the median average time from landlord claim to reposses

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, Renters’ Rights Act: Definition of Court Readiness , 24 March 2026 (Lords)

Data is collected and published—otherwise I would not have the figures for the current situation. MoJ statistics, as I said, tell us both the median time from landlord claim to repossession and how many possession claims progress to bailiff stage. Data i

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, Renters’ Rights Act: Definition of Court Readiness , 24 March 2026 (Lords)

My Lords, in the other place, the Minister, Matthew Pennycook, said that “court readiness is essential to the successful operation of the new system” and that he was working “to ensure that the Courts and Tribunals Service is ready”.—[Official R

Lord Jamieson, Renters’ Rights Act: Definition of Court Readiness , 24 March 2026 (Lords)

I welcome the Government’s commitment to legislating for a statutory bailiff regulator. Research by StepChange and others has uncovered shocking cases that show why that is urgently needed, including a bailiff pushing someone through their front door and

Gill Furniss, Bailiffs , 17 March 2026 (Commons)

16. What steps he is taking to help improve standards in the bailiff industry.

Gill Furniss, Bailiffs , 17 March 2026 (Commons)

Before answering the question, I extend my condolences to the family and friends of Jeff Blair, a county court bailiff who was killed last week doing his job. It was a shocking incident, and violence against our hard-working staff is completely unaccepta

Sarah Sackman, Bailiffs , 17 March 2026 (Commons)

I will just correct the hon. Gentleman slightly. Nowhere in our national literature did anybody promise to cut council tax anywhere in the country. He may want to correct himself on that. Anyway, I get people apologising for voting Labour. Sometimes t

Lee Anderson, Call for General Election , 12 January 2026 (Commons)

My Lords, I rise to speak to my Amendments 24 and 25. In some aspects, I take a slightly different view from the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, because I approve of the increased £500 penalty, provided it is for real anti-social behaviour. I accept the

Lord Blencathra, Crime and Policing Bill , 10 November 2025 (Lords)

It is not easy to follow that excellent speech. I really appreciate the hon. Member for Horsham (John Milne) reading out the names of people who have been failed by the system that was meant to support them—and we should remember that the system is what

Kirsty Blackman, Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill , 5 November 2025 (Commons)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Vaz. I thank the hon. Member for West Bromwich (Sarah Coombes) for securing this important debate. To the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), I say: automated vehicles— “It’s life, Jim, but n

Dr Al Pinkerton, Connected and Automated Vehicles , 28 October 2025 (Commons)

The new clause implies that there is a time limit on the Government’s ability to enforce unpaid fines imposed by the Crown court, and seeks to remove it. I reassure all hon. Members that this is not the case. There is no such limitation on the ability of

Alex Davies-Jones, Victims and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting) , 24 June 2025 (Commons)

I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish an assessment of the effectiveness of current regulation of the debt collection and civil enforcement sectors and to report to Parliament on the potenti

Mr Luke Charters, Regulation of Bailiffs (Assessment and Report) , 21 May 2025 (Commons)

My Lords, it is both a pleasure and a privilege to open my remarks by looking forward to and welcoming the maiden speech of my noble friend Lady Spielman. Throughout her career, she has embodied the highest ideals of public service: courage in the face o

Baroness Finn, Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill , 15 May 2025 (Lords)

I agree with my hon. Friend. I have spoken to a former employee of one of these private parking companies who was dismissed for whistleblowing. In my constituency of Newton Abbot, I have received numerous complaints about the behaviour of some private

Martin Wrigley, Parking Regulation , 6 May 2025 (Commons)

I have to announce to the House that Mike Amesbury, the former Member for Runcorn and Helsby, has been granted the Chiltern hundreds. The recall process would have begun once the time limit for all routes of appeal had been reached. It is now no longer r

Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Prayers , 18 March 2025 (Commons)

Q Anna, on your final point about engagement with customers, could you talk a bit about the partnership that the Department has with you and the MoneyHelper service, and the work that is done there to ensure that we seek to wrap appropriate advice and su

Andrew Western, Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (First sitting) , 25 February 2025 (Commons)

I thank the hon. Member for his eloquent words about what is often the most challenging moment in people’s lives. That knock on the door is a cacophony of everything that they are facing, and we have to bear that in mind. The Enforcement Conduct Board

Mr Luke Charters, Regulation of the Bailiff Sector , 11 February 2025 (Commons)

Absolutely. With that statutory underpinning, the ECB would have much greater avenues for enforcement. It has already done quite innovative work on the use of body-worn cameras and so on. Statutory underpinning would support its work even further. Thi

Mr Luke Charters, Regulation of the Bailiff Sector , 11 February 2025 (Commons)

I beg to move, That this House has considered the regulation of the bailiff sector. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Western. I extend my gratitude to my hon. Friend the Minister for attending this important debate. I will beg

Mr Luke Charters, Regulation of the Bailiff Sector , 11 February 2025 (Commons)

What was said, on “High Court enforcement officer”

All 7 contributions, newest first.

Will I make myself popular if I simply say yes? I will give a bit more detail than that. The law is absolutely clear that workers should receive the payments to which they are entitled, and we are committed to strengthening enforcement options. At the mo

Baroness Levitt, Employment Tribunals , 2 July 2026 (Lords)

Q Very specifically, you have had access to No. 10. What are the x, y and z that you are going in and saying need to be in place before chapter 1 of part 1 can be introduced? What are the specific metrics, if you like, of court improvement that you are p

Matthew Pennycook, Renters (Reform) Bill (First sitting) , 14 November 2023 (Commons)

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate, in particular the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, whose Motion gave rise to it. The Motion highlights concern about whether debtors have been overcharged in respect of the VAT

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar, Taking Control of Goods (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 , 13 January 2022 (Lords)

My Lords, I rise to move my Motion to Regret Statutory Instrument 1288—enforced in England and Wales—on taking control of goods. Today’s debate provides an opportunity to highlight the fact that since 2014, debtors have been wrongly charged VAT on the en

Baroness Meacher, Taking Control of Goods (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 , 13 January 2022 (Lords)

I shall not delay the House much. I want to focus on just one area. Many hon. Members have focused on financial recovery, which is entirely appropriate. To assist constituents and improve the perception of the bailiff industry, I want to talk about repos

Dr Matthew Offord, Bailiffs: Regulatory Reform , 9 January 2019 (Commons)

I will happily do that. Sensibly, the law has been set up in such a way that the landlord gets a High Court enforcement officer with powers of a constable to carry out the eviction if necessary. That is to prevent landlords from resorting to violence in t

Sir Keir Starmer, Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting) , 3 November 2015 (Commons)

I congratulate the hon. Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) on securing this important debate and the hon. Member for Makerfield (Yvonne Fovargue), whom I followed on the occasion of our maiden speeches, on her speech. It is a particular pleasure

Sir George Hollingbery, Debt Advice and Debt Management , 1 December 2011 (Commons)

How this was checked

For each phrase, 3 documents spread across the result set were re-downloaded from legislation.gov.uk and searched for the phrase in their published text. Every one of them contained it.

Legislation from legislation.gov.uk's full-text search; Parliament from the Hansard search API. Both are searched by quoted phrase, and both indexes are stemmed, so one phrase covers its plural. The legislation index is the English-language text: legislation.gov.uk holds Welsh versions of Welsh legislation separately, and a nil return here is a nil return in English. Document counts are a deduplicated union across a profession's phrases. Hansard contribution counts are summed across phrases and are therefore an upper bound, because one speech can match two phrases; the quotations kept are a sample of the total, never the whole of it. Nothing is filtered for relevance -- each phrase carries a caveat naming what it wrongly catches. The oldest hits are the least trustworthy: they are the likeliest to be the word in an older sense, and the legislation index reads legislation.gov.uk's editorial annotations as well as the enacted text, so a document can be returned because a note recording a later amendment mentions the phrase.

Collected 29 September 2026 from legislation.gov.uk and the Hansard search API, both Open Government Licence v3.0.