Question follow-through · 12773
Fireworks: Noise
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to work with local authorities to enforce noise curfews during fireworks.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to work with local authorities to enforce noise curfews during fireworks.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2024
Answer published
Existing legislation already controls the sale, availability, and use of fireworks. For example, there is an 11pm curfew in place for the use of fireworks, with later exceptions only for the traditional firework periods. Using fireworks outside the curfew...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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