DANGEROUS FURNITURE

Early day motion 400, tabled 5 December 2006 by Madeleine Moon (Labour). Signed by 57 members.

That this House joins the Trading Standards Institute in calling on the Government to hold talks with the Polish Embassy to stop lethal furniture flooding into the UK; recognises that much needs to be done to educate the public that sofas entering the UK from Poland and often sold for as little as £300 may not meet UK legislation requiring them to be made of material that resists fire, despite displaying swing tags showing a lighted match and cigarette; and notes the danger posed by furniture such as the consignment from Poland recently seized by trading standards officers, which burnt in seconds of contact with a naked flame and just minutes later became a blazing inferno emitting toxic smoke and fumes.

Signatures by party: Labour 35, Conservative 9, Liberal Democrat 6, DUP 5, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.