Question follow-through · 76246
Furniture: Fire Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to update the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire Safety) Regulations 1988 to (a) remove chemical flame retardants, (b) provide additional support to furniture manufacturers, (
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to update the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire Safety) Regulations 1988 to (a) remove chemical flame retardants, (b) provide additional support to furniture manufacturers, (
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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15 Sept 2025
Answer published
The policy paper ‘The fire safety of domestic upholstered furniture’, published on 22 January, set out that the Government is committed to delivering reforms to the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988 that maintain a high level of f...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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