David Nuttall – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Nuttall on 2014-06-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many inspections each local authority has carried out to ensure compliance with the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988 in each of the last three years.

Michael Fallon

The data in the detail requested is not held centrally. The total number of inspections carried out by local authority trading standards across all products, which would include those for furniture and furnishings, was 9,674 in 2011.