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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will make an estimate of the (a) number of fulfilment houses that are operating in the United Kingdom that are selling counterfeit and substandard electrical goods and (b) cost to the UK economy of such fulfilment houses.

Electrical goods must meet essential safety requirements before they can be placed on the UK market, whoever has done so.

The Office for Product Safety and Standards is improving its intelligence gathering and sharing on fulfilment houses and is working closely with partners to support operational activity targeting and addressing any non-compliances identified.