Question follow-through · 14441

Products: Regulation

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.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Answering body
Department for Business and Trade
Tabled
15 Nov 2024
Target answer date
19 Nov 2024
Answer
21 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    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.

  2. 19 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The Bill will give us the powers we need to make necessary changes to the product regulation framework. Secondary legislation is subject to the Bill receiving Royal Assent and subsequent parliamentary time in passing any secondary legislation. It is too e...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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