Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent discussions she has had with major online retailers to help ensure products sold to UK consumers on their platforms meet UK safety standards.

Through the Office for Product Safety and Standards as the national product regulator, my Department engages regularly with online marketplaces to help ensure the safety of products sold online. This includes take downs and recalls based on intelligence, including from test purchases.

Senior officials and I have held meetings with the major on-line marketplaces demanding they take more action to fulfil their responsibilities for supplying safe goods. The Government is currently consulting on a Product Safety Review, including proposals to modernise responsibilities in online supply chains.