HC Deb 06 November 1967 vol 753 c47W
Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the danger of severe shock from imported electrical appliances having a colour code different from the British Standard, he will take steps to ban the sale of such appliances in Great Britain.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

As the greatest risk arises when the earth core is wrongly connected, I propose to make regulations very shortly prescribing that only the British Standard colours should be used for this core in flexible leads attached to domestic electrical appliances. These