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

Commons · Question 44287 · Tabled 4 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 22 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by James MacCleary

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

Answered by Justin Madders, 22 Apr 2025

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 ...