Product Recall: Tumble Driers

Baroness Crawley Excerpts

Wednesday 18th October 2017 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Crawley (Lab)]

My Lords, does the Minister agree that a register of injuries arising from unsafe products would be an essential intelligence resource, especially when so many products are delivered via the internet, directly to people’s homes? What plans have the Government to create such a national injuries database?

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

The noble Baroness makes a good point, and that indeed is part of our thinking and could be part of the national resourcing to increase the capability for improving consumer monitoring. We already have a GOV.UK website up and running. I do not believe that site is capable of allowing a database, but the noble Baroness makes a good point.