PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Consumer Goods: Repairs and Maintenance (16 October 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if she will make it her policy to introduce regulations comparable to EU right to repair regulations for appliances after the UK leaves the EU.

Asked by:
Sir Nicholas Dakin (Labour)

The Government supports measures which help to reduce the environmental impact of appliances and earlier this year voted in favour of new EU ecodesign measures which aim to improve both the energy efficiency and resource efficiency of products, for example by requiring them to be more easily repairable.

Although the UK will not be subject to these new ecodesign rules which will take effect after we have left the EU, we intend to consult on new UK ecodesign measures, including both energy efficiency requirements and requirements on repairability.

Answered by:
Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative)
28 October 2019