Companies are to be forced to make it “simple and straightforward” for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions or get their money back under new rules to stamp out the so-called subscription traps that are costing Britons £1.6bn a year.
Justin Madders, the minister for employment rights, competition and markets at the Department for Business and Trade, told the Guardian: “We want to get money back into people’s pockets when they’ve signed up to things that they didn’t mean or want to.”
