Question follow-through · 30397
Carbon Monoxide: Alarms
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to ensure that carbon monoxide alarms are properly tested using (a) UK manufactured, (b) safe and (c) industry-approved test gas.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 19 Feb 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to ensure that carbon monoxide alarms are properly tested using (a) UK manufactured, (b) safe and (c) industry-approved test gas.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Feb 2025
Answer published
Carbon monoxide alarms should be properly tested before they can be placed on the UK market. British Standard EN 50291-1:2018 outlines the test methods and performance requirements of carbon monoxide alarms used in a domestic setting, and British Standard...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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