Toys and Games: Safety
(asked on 17th January 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent steps he has taken to ensure (a) unsafe and (b) non-compliant children's toys are not being sold.
Answered by
Justin Madders
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Government is committed to ensuring that only safe products can be sold in the UK. Under the Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011, all toys placed on the market must meet essential safety requirements.
Where products are identified that do not meet these requirements, the Office for Product Safety and Standards works with local Trading Standards to bring these into compliance with the regulation, or to remove them from sale.
The growth in e-commerce has brought significant challenges to the product safety legal framework. The Product Regulation and Metrology Bill will enable regulations to be updated to better reflect modern online supply chains.