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Written Question
Domestic Appliances: Safety
Thursday 20th July 2017

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 discussions he has had with white goods manufacturers on fridge freezer safety since the Grenfell Tower fire.

Answered by Margot James

Shortly after the Grenfell Tower fire I spoke to the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances (AMDEA) to ensure their members were ready to take any actions necessary should investigations into the cause of the fire show that white goods were involved. I also attended the Working Group on Product Recalls and Safety where AMDEA were represented on 22 June.

My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy also spoke directly to the UK Managing Director and the Global CEO of Whirlpool to ensure they are taking all necessary steps to ensure consumer safety.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Apr 2017
Whirlpool: Product Safety System

"There is only time, in half a minute, to say a profound thank you to all the Members who have taken part in this debate. I really do appreciate their support and the work they have done. I also want to say to the Minister that the issues of liability, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Apr 2017
Whirlpool: Product Safety System

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered Whirlpool and the product safety system.

Thank you, Ms Ryan, for the opportunity to open this debate today in Westminster Hall on a subject that I have become heavily involved with and extremely concerned about during the last year. May I …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Apr 2017
Whirlpool: Product Safety System

"I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention and I am also grateful to the large number of Members attending this debate, which shows the degree of interest in the subject. I will go through what happened—hopefully not at great length, but with some precision—to show just …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Apr 2017
Whirlpool: Product Safety System

"I absolutely agree and I know that a number of Members from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, some of whom are here today, have been putting a lot of pressure on. I hope that pressure will continue, because clearly the current Trading Standards regime does not work. That is why …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Apr 2017
Whirlpool: Product Safety System

"I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, because I believe that Whirlpool is cynically trying to delay everything from legal actions on liability through to inquests, to resist what in the end will undoubtedly be very substantial payments that it will have to make. However, the consequences …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Apr 2017
Whirlpool: Product Safety System

"I thank the hon. Gentleman; since his own personal experience of this matter, he has been assiduous in pursuing it. In response to his question, frankly I do not think it would have made much difference if he had originally said he was an MP, because when MPs have attempted …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Apr 2017
Whirlpool: Product Safety System

"Again, I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her comments and for raising that issue. I will conclude my speech by putting that matter to the Minister. If, when the new Parliament is elected, we still do not have satisfactory answers, I hope that whoever then chairs the BEIS …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Apr 2017
Whirlpool: Product Safety System

"Absolutely. Trading standards and Whirlpool had to be dragged kicking and screaming. Peterborough trading standards said Which?’s action was premature, which is extraordinary given what happened in my constituency. In February, Peterborough changed its mind and finally issued an enforcement notice. After resistance and presumably after it took legal advice, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 26 Apr 2017
Whirlpool: Product Safety System

"I am grateful for that point, because one of the features of this issue is how secretive Whirlpool has been, to the extent that it still does not publish a full list of the models affected. It appears to put what is left of its public reputation before the safety …..."
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