Question follow-through · 21504
Consumer Goods: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to support small businesses in Great Britain with the new General Product Safety Regulation requirements to maintain market access to Northern Ireland.
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- Answering body
- Northern Ireland Office
- Tabled
- 19 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to support small businesses in Great Britain with the new General Product Safety Regulation requirements to maintain market access to Northern Ireland.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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8 Jan 2025
Answer published
The updated GPSR largely formalises how businesses are already operating in the UK. Where businesses need to make changes, we expect that they will be adapting anyway to be compliant with the new Regulation to continue trading with the EU.On 3 December, t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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