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 (a) quantity and (b) value of fireworks sold in each of the last five years.

The Department does not hold information requested for each of the last five years.

An estimate made by the Department in 2015, based upon data from industry, showed the market for consumer fireworks to be worth about £60-70 million annually in the UK, around £24 million for professional fireworks and in the region of £5 million for theatrical pyrotechnics.

(source - Impact Assessment no IA No: RPC 14-BIS-2216(2) - Implementation of two pyrotechnic article Directives: (i) 2013/29/EU alignment to the New Legislative Framework and (ii) 2014/58/EU relating to traceability. See http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2015/256/pdfs/ukia_20150256_en.pdf