Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 44287

Product Regulation and Metrology Bill (HL): Lithium-ion Batteries

Tabled: 4 April 2025
Answered: 22 April 2025
Named Day

Question

James MacCleary

Liberal DemocratLewes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking through the Product Safety and Metrology Bill to improve safety standards in relation to the (a) use and (b) sale of lithium-ion batteries.

Answer

Justin Madders
The UK has some of the strongest consumer product safety laws in the world, that already requires businesses to only make safe products available on the market, including lithium-ion batteries. The powers in the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill will ...

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