| Heading: |
Batteries: Lithium |
| Question ID: |
1760372 |
| UIN: |
27659 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5066 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Steve Darling
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Steve Darling
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of fire regulations on Lithium Ion battery storage in the (a) commercial and (b) domestic sector. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-07 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4998 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Michael Shanks
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| Answering Member handle: |
mgshanks
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@mgshanks
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| Answer text: |
There is a robust framework governing the fire safety of lithium-ion battery storage. The Health and Safety Executive regulates commercial batteries within a framework which requires industry to act at all stages of the battery’s deployment to ensure safe... |
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| Answering body ID: |
215 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Tweeted: |
true |