Furniture compliance labels and mandatory standards
Dukes proposed compliance labels and making more standards mandatory; the Minister said quality standards are voluntary and mandatory safety standards fall under another Minister’s remit.
Would the Minister not consider providing that furniture which is manufactured and sold, or even put on sale in this country, should bear a label or an indication to the effect that it complies with at least our one single mandatory standard? Would the Minister not consider further the question of whether some of the other standards should not also be made mandatory?
Comment on this
The question of standards relating to quality are voluntary and are there for the purchaser to decide. Standards covering safety aspects of furniture certainly can be made mandatory but it is a matter for the Minister for Trade, Commerce and Tourism, not one for me, to make any particular standard mandatory.