Furniture: Fire Resistant Materials
(asked on 9th May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prosecutions were made by Trading Standards for offences under the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire Safety) Regulations 1988 between 2014 and 2019; and how many of these prosecutions resulted in a conviction.
The Ministry of Justice has published data for prosecutions and convictions up to the end of December 2018. Data for 2019 will be published in May 2020.
The number of prosecutions and convictions for offences under the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire Safety) Regulations 1988 between 2014 and 2018 are shown in the table below.
Table: Prosecutions and convictions under the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire Safety) Regulations 1988, 2014–18 | ||||||||||
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |||||
Prosecuted | 4 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 2 |
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Convicted | 3 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
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