Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) extending right-to-repair requirements to (i) smart devices and (ii) a wider range of consumer products and (b) introducing minimum functionality or software-support periods.

The Government has introduced repairability requirements and minimum software-support periods for specified products, such as electronic displays, fridges and dishwashers. Similar requirements for other products will be considered over time.

Repair and reuse are fundamental tenets of a circular economy. We established a Circular Economy Task Force to co-design our approach and will outline our next steps shortly.