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Written question asked by Countess of Mar (Crossbench) on Wednesday, 22 May 2019, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 6 June 2019. It was answered by Lord Henley (Conservative) on Wednesday, 5 June 2019 on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.


Furniture: Fire Resistant Materials

Question

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Henley on 21 May (HL15637), how much of the allocation for 2018–19 has been spent on product compliance testing; how many tests were conducted; and what were the results.

Answer

The Office for Product Safety and Standards allocated £500k in 2018/19 for local authority trading standards to fund the testing of products that were manufactured or imported into their local authority area.

Test reports are currently being collated and the data analysed to establish the total numbers of samples tested, the product safety legislation that has been tested to and the level of non-compliance. The results of this analysis are expected in the summer and will be published in due course.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL15925
Session
2017-19
Related items
Furniture: Fire Resistant Materials
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Written questions
House of Lords
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Expenditure Furniture Testing Fire resistant materials
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk