Question follow-through · 10640
Medical Equipment: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Consumer Rights Act 2015 to increase statute of limitations to 20 years for faulty medical devices.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 24 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Consumer Rights Act 2015 to increase statute of limitations to 20 years for faulty medical devices.
24 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Consumer Protection Act, which contains our product liability legislation, has been in place since 1987 and my department is indeed undertaking a review of it, during which we will consider all aspects, including those claim limits my Honourable frien...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Fireworks: Regulation
17 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to consult on the regulation of fireworks.