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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate her Department has made of the level of support for a ban on the public sale of fireworks.

There are already strong laws in place to control firework availability and use to reduce the risks to people and disturbance to animals, including age related restrictions, a curfew and a noise limit. There are also enforcement mechanisms in place to tackle situations when fireworks are sold illegally or misused.

There are no plans to ban the sale of fireworks and no estimate has been made of the public support for such a ban.