{"value":{"id":1881663,"askingMemberId":4781,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2026-02-12T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2026-02-23T00:00:00","uin":"113359","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made about levels of [i] cases and [ii] prosecutions of individuals attempting to sell illegal retrofit headlamp bulbs in the UK.","answeringBodyId":27,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Transport","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4943,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2026-02-27T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) carries out proactive monitoring of online marketplaces to identify products with potentially misleading claims such as <em>road legal</em> or <em>MOT compliant</em>.</p><p> </p><p>Where appropriate, DVSA targets test purchasing and carries out assessments to confirm compliance with applicable standards and engages with sellers to correct inaccurate advertising and remove non-compliant products from sale. In the last year, DVSA has investigated 113 cases. DVSA has no estimate on prosecutions as it is dependent on the effectiveness of other interventions.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Motor Vehicles: Lighting","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1881663","method":"GET"}]}