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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his Department's policy is on the maintenance of the provisions of the Personal Protective Equipment (Enforcement) Regulations 2018 after the UK leaves the EU.

The Government takes the issue of consumer product safety extremely seriously and is committed to ensuring that only safe products, including personal protective equipment, is placed on the UK market now and in the future.

The safety requirements that personal protective equipment must meet that are based on EU law will be retained through the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill. This means that, on day 1 after exit, personal protective equipment will only be able to be sold on the UK market if it meets the same safety requirements as it does now.