Question follow-through · 50250
Imports
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what information his Department holds on the proportion of imports worth less than £135 that did not meet UK safety standards by country of origin in each year since 2015.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 6 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 14 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what information his Department holds on the proportion of imports worth less than £135 that did not meet UK safety standards by country of origin in each year since 2015.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 May 2025
Answer published
The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) works with local authorities and border forces to detect, deter and disrupt the flow of unsafe and non-compliant goods as they are imported into the UK. Risk-based and intelligence-led approaches are used...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Beet Sugar: Competition
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to prevent anti-competitive practices in the domestic beet sugar industry.
Sugar Beet: Import Duties
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of increasing the Autonomous Tariff Quota on the domestic sugar beet industry.
Electric Vehicles: Components and Raw Materials
13 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of US tariffs on (a) manufactured components and (b) raw materials for the domestic production of electric vehicles.
Electric Vehicles: Components and Raw Materials
13 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) manufactured components and (b) raw materials imported from China for the domestic production of electric vehicles in the last five years.
Minerals: Russia
20 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the UK has imported rare earth minerals from Russia since 2022.
Electricity: Prices
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has undertaken economic modelling on the potential impact of sustained high industrial electricity prices on the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector until 2035.
Royal Mail: Standards
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the service standards of Royal Mail’s parcel (a) management and (b) delivery.
Royal Mail: Standards
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of levels of customer satisfaction with Royal Mail’s parcel (a) management and (b) delivery.
Royal Mail: Standards
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has conducted an impact assessment of Royal Mail’s service standards performance on connectivity between local communities.
Insolvency
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the use of bankruptcy law by companies to avoid repaying contractual repayments.
Company Liquidations
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of the practice of voluntary liquidation by companies with (a) liabilities and (b) outstanding contractual obligations that begin operations under another
Employment: Harassment
21 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what reasonable steps employers will be expected to take to comply with clause 18 of the Employment Rights Bill.