Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she had has with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of including natural gas, petrol or oil used in domestic cooking and heating appliances in UK REACH legislation.

UK REACH aims to ensure companies who put chemicals on the market understand and manage the risks they might pose. Under UK REACH, manufacturers and importers have a duty to register chemicals to access the GB market.  We have the freedom to make our own regulatory decisions where we see there is a strong case of a risk to human health and/or the environment that needs addressing, and we have already started using UK REACH to address risks from chemicals, based on the assessment of risk in GB.