Draft Radio Equipment (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2025

Neil Coyle Excerpts

Tuesday 11th November 2025 General Committees

[Jim Allister (North Antrim) (TUV)]

It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Pritchard. Here we have another egregious example of how my constituents are disenfranchised when it comes to making laws that govern aspects of their lives. All of us in the United Kingdom were subject to the EU regulations on radio equipment through the Radio Equipment Regulations 2017. [Interruption.] Does the hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark wish to intervene?

[Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark) (Lab)]

indicated dissent.

[Jim Allister]

It is only in Northern Ireland, however, that without any consent or consultation, additional laws under the 2022 legislation are going to be enforced.

The basic premise of this House and of a democratic society is that people get a say in the laws that govern them. That is not so for my constituents. These are laws being imposed courtesy of the Windsor framework, which simply decrees that the United Kingdom has abandoned all claim to make laws in over 300 areas, and has subjected itself to imposing whatever laws are made in those areas by a foreign Parliament and a collection of foreign Ministers. That is the absurdity of how my constituents are governed in those 300 areas of law, of which the draft regulations represent but one.

The draft regulations apply to everyday items: the baby alarm in the bedroom down to the living room—[Interruption.]