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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many businesses the Office for Product Safety and Standards have taken prosecution action against as a result of (a) serious and (b) recurrent non-compliance with product safety regulations in each year since 2018.

Since April 2018 the Office of Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has taken a range of enforcement action including 65 recall notices and 21 withdrawal notices. In the last financial year (2021/22), OPSS published unsafe product alerts for 500 products and risk-based product safety checks at the border resulted in some two and a half million unsafe items being refused entry. In addition to these measures, prosecutions are undertaken where it is proportionate to the alleged offence and focused on removing the risk to the consumer. No prosecutions for unsafe items have been concluded but they will be published by OPSS in its annual report.