FOI003646 FOI Trading Standards

For each financial year 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26, and separately for 2026/27 to the date of this request, please provide:

1. The number of petrol/diesel retail fuel dispensers tested by Trading Standards which were found to be outside the permitted error limits in the consumer's disfavour, i.e. dispensing less fuel than the quantity indicated to the customer.

2. Of those dispensers, the number that were disqualified/taken out of use, issued with a notice requiring correction, or otherwise required to be adjusted or repaired.

For 2025/26 and 2026/27 to date only:

3. Please provide details of the ten dispensers with the greatest recorded shortfalls in each period, or all such dispensers if fewer than ten were identified. For each, please provide, where electronically recorded:

- the trading name and address of the petrol station;
- the date of the test;
- the size of the shortfall, in whatever form it is recorded, for example percentage error or volume discrepancy; and
- the action taken.