HC Deb 07 February 1968 vol 758 cc177-8W
Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he Will take steps to ensure that electric blankets offered for sale have adequate warnings, both on attached labels and in instruction books, pointing out the danger to life of misuse.

Mr. Ennals:

Such warnings are required by the relevant British Standard with which more than 300 different brands of electric blankets are known to comply following tests by the British Electrical Approvals Board. If warnings supplied with a particular electric blanket are considered inadequate, my right hon Friend will gladly have investigations made.