# Fireworks trade warns tighter noise limits could fuel black market sales

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/labour-warned-bid-to-make-legal-fireworks-quieter-is-a-ban-in-all-but-name-and-will-leave-brits-at-risk-from-unsafe-rockets-sold-on-black-market/
- Published: 2026-11-03T17:06:06+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-03T17:18:13+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16262543/Labour-warned-bid-make-legal-fireworks-quieter-ban-leave-Brits-risk-unsafe-rockets-sold-black-market.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Government, Politics, Space, Technology, World

## Key points

- Fireworks industry warns a 90-decibel limit could nearly end legal sales.
- A 110-decibel limit could remove about 30 per cent of varieties.
- Animal welfare groups back quieter fireworks; industry calls for stronger enforcement.

## Summary

The British Fireworks Association has warned MPs that lowering the legal noise limit for fireworks to 90 decibels could amount to a near ban on their sale and drive buyers towards unregulated products. The debate matters as ministers consider reducing fireworks’ noise amid concerns about antisocial use and the effects of loud displays on pets and military veterans.

The Government consultation proposed reducing the limit from 120 to 110 dBAimp, a change the association’s chairman, Steve Raper, said could remove about 30 per cent of varieties from sale. He said a 90 dBAimp limit would exclude around 90 per cent of fireworks brought into the UK, while arguing that stronger enforcement of existing rules would better address harms. The RSPCA supported the lower limit and said quieter fireworks beyond sparklers could be made; MPs also heard calls for firework control zones.

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