Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour), on Monday, 15 December 2014, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 47 members in total.

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COUNTERFEIT PRODUCTS ONLINE AND ELECTRICAL SAFETY

That this House recognises the work of Electrical Safety First, a charity dedicated to preventing deaths, injuries and damage caused by electricity, to raise awareness of people being put at risk by a new trend in which thousands of potentially dangerous counterfeit products are out on sale on social media; notes that sales of illegal, fake goods on social media have increased by nearly 15 per cent in the last year; further notes that, in the past year, the percentage of counterfeit goods seized by authorities because they posed a threat to people's health and safety has doubled, with the number of mobile telephones seized for this reason increasing by over 50 per cent in the last year; further notes that counterfeit electrical products often contain faulty parts, causing electric shocks, overheating and the ability to catch fire contributing to nearly 6,000 house fires; and calls on the Government to assess and tackle the number of dangerous counterfeit electrical goods being sold on social media in the UK.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

632 

Session

2014-15

Other sponsors

Alan Meale

Jeremy Corbyn

Hugh Bayley

Virendra Sharma

Jim Shannon

Subjects

Consumers Charities Death Business Electricity Internet Manufacturing industries Standards

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk