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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding his Department has allocated to Welsh trading standards offices to tackle counterfeit electrical goods being imported into Wales.

National Trading Standards receive £13.24 million per year from BEIS to prioritise and coordinate national and cross-local authority boundary enforcement in England and Wales, including action to stop the sale of counterfeit electrical goods.

National Trading Standards ‘Operation Jasper’ resulted in the seizure of over £1m in counterfeit goods including luxury brands, dangerous electrical equipment and unsafe cosmetic products in 2016. This included an operation by Swansea Trading Standards to target commercial vehicles carrying counterfeit goods.