Written Question
Thursday 27th December 2018
Asked by:
Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on the incidence of Whirlpool tumble dryer modifications being deployed incorrectly in machines manufactured (a) between April 2004 and September 2015 and (b) machines manufactured after September 2015.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The Office for Product Safety and Standards is undertaking a review of the actions taken by Whirlpool in relation to its modification programme and we will report to the House in due course.
Written Question
Thursday 27th December 2018
Asked by:
Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the January 2017 enforcement notice issued by Peterborough Trading Standards, what steps the Office for Product Safety and Standards has taken to ensure that Whirlpool (a) identifies and (b) repairs the estimated one million fire-risk dryers in homes.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The Office for Product Safety and Standards is undertaking a review of the actions taken by Whirlpool in relation to its modification programme and we will report to the House in due course.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"I am glad that the Government now take product recall seriously. They certainly did not in the case of the 5 million Whirlpool tumble dryers, many of which are still in our constituents’ homes. More catch fire every week, destroying peoples’ properties and putting their lives at risk. What will …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"T6. Last year, Shepherds Bush post office was moved out of the town centre into the back of a WHSmith store. We were promised that it would remain a Crown post office, but now it is one of the 74 that is going to be franchised. We also have three …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Ministerial Corrections - Tue 15 May 2018
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
"I think the Minister has said that one of the office’s duties will be to maintain a recall register. How is that progressing, and will manufacturers be under an obligation to ensure that the register is notified of all recalls?..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 May 2018
Office for Product Safety and Standards
"I am not surprised to hear that there are three trading standards officers in Peterborough, who of course have to cover everything that trading standards does. The time spent on electrical safety will be perhaps part of one post. We need to know from the Minister how the new office …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 May 2018
Office for Product Safety and Standards
"It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Poplar and Limehouse (Jim Fitzpatrick) and to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David. I will not repeat what my hon. Friend said, except to say that we are all grateful for the expertise and support that we get …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 May 2018
Office for Product Safety and Standards
"I am grateful for that answer. Perhaps, because of the limited time, I will limit myself to making one point. Will the new office pass the Whirlpool test? Whirlpool is untypical in some ways, because one particular design fault has affected 5.5 million tumble dryers; I think it was estimated …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 May 2018
Office for Product Safety and Standards
"The hon. Gentleman is making a good point. What alerted me to the issue in the first place was a serious tower block fire in Shepherd’s Bush, two years ago, when the victim was watching—she was in the same room as the fire and did everything right, including unplugging it. …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 May 2018
Office for Product Safety and Standards
"I think the Minister has said that one of the office’s duties will be to maintain a recall register. How is that progressing, and will manufacturers be under an obligation to ensure that the register is notified of all recalls?..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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