Question follow-through · 13392
Office for Product Safety and Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to ensure that the Office for Product Safety and Standards is adequately resourced to enforce the provisions of the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to ensure that the Office for Product Safety and Standards is adequately resourced to enforce the provisions of the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill.
13 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2024
Answer published
Capacity already exists to enforce the provisions proposed in the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill in both the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) and in local authorities. Government will consider any changes to resourcing requirements fo...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Products: Regulation
15 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his planned timetable is for bringing forward secondary legislation under the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill once enacted.
P&O Ferries: Redundancy
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress the Insolvency Service has made in their civil investigation of P&O Ferries.
Centre for Public Interest Audit: Public Appointments
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the former Chief Executive of the Insolvency Service sought advice from the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments before accepting the position of Executive Director of the Centre for Pub
Business: Human Rights
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take legislative steps to tackle human right abuses in business practices.
Employment: IVF
22 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of taking legislative steps to include IVF in the (a) Employment Rights Act 2010 and (b) Employment Rights Act 1996.
Insolvency Service: Standards
27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the average time taken was for the Insolvency Service to investigate civil offences in the latest period for which data is available.
Arms Trade: Pakistan
26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the Government has authorised any export licences for military equipment or dual-use items to Pakistan that could be used in drone operations or internal security actions in Balochistan.
Trade: Balochistan
26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the level of the risk that UK-supplied equipment could contribute to human rights violations in Balochistan.
Arms Trade: Belgium
20 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to conduct a compliance investigation into the companies involved in the seizure of UK-origin military goods in Belgium.
Export Controls
20 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what measures are in place to ensure that UK-origin controlled goods comply with licensing requirements when transiting third countries.
Trade Agreements: USA
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to undertake further trade negotiations with the US under the General Terms of the Economic Prosperity Deal.