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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to faulty engines of the Ford Ecoboost, what steps the Office of Product Safety and Standards plans to take to support both the recall of that vehicle and consumers that have been affected.

The Office for Product Safety and Standards was established in January 2018 to further improve the UK’s leading product safety system. It covers general consumer product safety, but not vehicles, food, medicines, medical devices, construction products or workplace equipment which are all covered by separate bodies.

The Department of Transport has policy responsibility for vehicle safety and the Driver and Vehicles Standards Agency, an executive agency of the Department for Transport, is responsible for automotive safety defect and recall matters.