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The Bill concerns UK product safety, regulation and metrology framework. It makes provision about:the marketing, or use, of products in the UK; units of measurement and the quantities in which goods are marketed in the UK.

The impact assessment (IA) provides sufficient evidence of the problem under consideration and a strong argument for intervention.The Department has not provided monetisation of the impacts.The IA states that this is because the Bills powers themselves do not result in costs or benefits to business or households.Instead, it provides a qualitative assessment and indicative figures to illustrate the likely scale of impacts, including estimating the size of the potential markets involved.The IA confirms that costs and benefits will be analysed further for the related secondary legislation.This is consistent with RPC guidance on assessment of impacts of primary legislation, but the Bills IA could be improved by including further detail of the impacts expected from the related secondary legislation.