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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which organisations the Office for Product Safety and Standards is working with in Northern Ireland to protect consumers from unsafe and non-compliant electrical goods.

Over the last year officials from the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) have met with the Heads of Environmental Health Services of all District Councils in Northern Ireland, as well as representatives from Trading Standards Northern Ireland, the Border Force Delivery Group NI and are in contact with officials in the Department for the Economy.

The Office is working with the Chartered Trading Standards Institute to provide training on practical product safety regulation to regulatory partners in Northern Ireland.