Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential effect of the ban on incandescent light bulbs and the phasing out of halogen light bulbs and fluorescent light bulbs on light-sensitive people adversely affected by LED lighting.

In October 2021, the Government introduced updated energy efficiency measures for lighting products. When forming the Impact Assessment for this legislation, officials considered the health and wellbeing impacts that may arise as a result of the phase out of certain lighting technologies.

To account for any adverse health implications this may have on light-sensitive people, there is an exemption built into the legislation to allow alternative light sources to be provided specifically for use by photosensitive patients, to be sold in pharmacies and other authorised selling points upon presentation of a medical prescription.