Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to include the sale of unsafe electrical goods on online marketplaces within the proposed online safety Bill.
The Government is committed to tackling the sale of unsafe consumer products online, including unsafe electrical goods.
The new online safety legislation will focus on ensuring that people are protected from harmful content and behaviour online, with a particular emphasis on protecting children and on tackling the most serious illegal content.
It will not have a focus on product safety as it is important not to duplicate other work across government. As the country’s national product safety regulator, the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has a clear remit to lead the Government’s efforts to tackle the sale of unsafe goods online.