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Electronic Equipment: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of tech manufacturers building barriers into their device systems to stop repairing by independent technicians on recent trends in t

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
28 Nov 2024
Answer
2 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of tech manufacturers building barriers into their device systems to stop repairing by independent technicians on recent trends in t

  2. 28 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    We have not made this assessment. Further policy development around promoting greater circularity for electricals, including right-to-repair, will be guided by the government’s work to transition to a circular economy.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Chemicals

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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