Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the average time was for the Office for Product Safety and Standards to conduct an investigation into a regulator for repeated breaches of the regulators code in the latest period for which data is available.

The Regulators Code is established under the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006. It provides a clear, flexible and principles-based framework for how regulators should engage with those they regulate.

The Act does not make provision for sanctions, penalties or investigations in respect of adherence by a regulator with the principles of the Code.

Routine enquires in respect of the Code received by the Office for Product Safety and Standards are managed within internal service standard time limits of five working days.