Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to (a) mandate or (b) encourage an increase in the energy efficiency of electricity consuming products after the UK leaves the EU.

The energy efficiency of energy-related products, including electricity consuming products, is currently regulated under the EU Ecodesign Directive and Energy Labelling Framework Regulation.

In the Clean Growth Strategy (p.44), we set out that following EU Exit, the UK “will keep step with equivalent standards wherever possible and appropriate, or even exceed them where it is in the UK’s interest to do so. This may include products not yet covered by European legislation, such as smart appliances”.

The potential to do this is subject to the outcome of the wider EU Exit negotiations.