Fireworks
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Nigel Dodds (Belfast North, DUP)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will review the effectiveness of legislation on (a) the misuse of fireworks and (b) the sale of fireworks over the internet in respect of public safety.
Kevin Brennan (Minister of State (also in the Department for Business, Innovations and Skills), Department for Children, Schools and Families; Cardiff West, Labour)
I have been asked to reply.
The legislation on the misuse of fireworks has been reviewed as part of implementation of the Pyrotechnics Directive due to be implemented early in 2010. Fireworks ordered over the internet are governed by the same legislation as shop sales. UK companies either deliver to a pick-up point, or to the buyer by special carrier; they are not allowed to deliver through the Royal Mail.