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1109996

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date	05/04/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Whirlpool Corporation: Tumble Dryers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many affected Whirlpool customers the Office for Product Safety and Standards contacted as part of its review of the company's handling of its tumble dryer safety issue announced in November 2015.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	241473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards review focussed on engineering assessment of Whirlpool tumble dryers and expert analysis of data including fire and incident data from Fire and Rescue Services, Which? and Whirlpool. It also reviewed whether Whirlpool’s consumer outreach programme was adequate.</p><p>The review included input from scientific, legal and product safety experts including from the Government’s Health and Safety Laboratory and the BEIS Chief Scientific Advisor.</p><p>Interviews with consumers did not form part of the review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 17/04/2019 13:38:07 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1109997

registered interest
date	05/04/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Whirlpool Corporation: Tumble Dryers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Office for Product Safety and Standards received evidence of any instances of Whirlpool’s tumble dryer modification proving ineffective in preventing fires in machines as a result of lint catching in the appliance's heating element as part of its review of the company's handling of its safety issue announced in November 2015.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	241474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The review found that there is a low risk of harm or injury from lint fires in modified Whirlpool tumble dryers. The Office for Product Safety and Standards is not aware of any evidence of lint fires attributed to a failure in the modification. The evidence indicates that the modification reduces the risk of fire.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 11/04/2019 14:59:13 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1109998

registered interest
date	05/04/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Whirlpool Corporation: Tumble Dryers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Office for Product Safety and Standards has required Whirlpool to take to raise awareness of at-risk tumble dryers in UK homes, as part of its review of the company's handling of its safety issue announced in November 2015.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	241475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has published specific requirements for Whirlpool to act on and issued a Decision Letter telling Whirlpool that the company must: improve its management of risk; set up a more rigorous system of quality assurance to ensure modifications are correctly installed; and reach affected consumers in more creative ways to minimise the risk of faulty machines still being in people’s homes.</p><p> </p><p>OPSS will monitor Whirlpool’s actions against these requirements.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 11/04/2019 14:59:21 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss