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Robin Walker Excerpts
Tuesday 12th July 2022

(2 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kwasi Kwarteng Portrait Kwasi Kwarteng
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As the hon. Lady will know, the Office for Product Safety and Standards leads a national programme of regulatory action to look at precisely those risks. In 2021, for example, 12,500 products were removed from supply as a direct result of OPSS intervention.

Robin Walker Portrait Mr Robin Walker (Worcester) (Con)
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My late constituent Bethany Shipsey was tragically killed after consuming just a small amount of the lethal explosive precursor dinitrophenol—DNP—which is sometimes wrongly marketed as a slimming or bodybuilding product. May I ask my right hon. Friend for a meeting to discuss this tragedy, and how we can take steps to crack down on the overseas suppliers who are selling this deadly substance into the UK online?

Kwasi Kwarteng Portrait Kwasi Kwarteng
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I should be happy to meet my hon. Friend, who did excellent work at the Department for Education.