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BS7671 never comes into law in England.

Isn't the problem due to the electronic control causing the current to be pulsating DC, rather than AC? That would need a Type B RCD. http://www.doepke.co.uk/catalogue/Cat-pdf/rcds.pdf

Well, single socket-outlets have to withstand 14A for between 4 and 8 hours in the temperature-rise test, and in the breaking capacity test a current of 13 x 1.25 A, 10 times. The switch is only tested at 13 A ±0,4 A, but for 15 000 operations. There doesn't seem to be anything else. Plugs are...

And it's 220V, whereas the UK nominal supply voltage is 230V, usually nearer to 240V.

This reminded me of working at an American air base in Suffolk in the 80s, where they had a sort of cross-over arrangement for the entry lane - entered on the left, then crossed over to the right-hand side of the road while within the base!

I've got 4 of these: https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/TNPP158HF.html in a similar size garage, and their adequate for working on the car. I wasn't convinced that the extra cost of LEDs is justified. Paint the walls and floor in light colours, and if you have a ceiling paint that white -...

What do you consider to be adequate or optimal?

Well, neither you nor BAS has given an example of an instance where it would be harmful to fit a lower value plug fuse...

A further consideration is what is meant by 'adequate' internal protection. Is protection sufficient for 100% of cases, or 99%, or 90%? What if the appliance is such that any overcurrent sufficient to blow a fuse will have caused irreparable damage to the appliance?

I doubt it, for a number of reasons, one of which is that you'd have nowhere to fit it! At that price, it presumably contains only a heater so would be unlikely to benefit from a lower value fuse than is necessary to protect the flex. I find that very surprising.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that the flexible cord of an appliance is not fully protected by the preferred value BS1362 fuses, so I don't see the relevance of that quote from the BEAMA paper.

BS1362 includes 1A fuses.

Because currents that can blow a fuse below 1A don't need sand-filled ceramic fuses to achieve the rupturing capacity?

I'm pretty certain that the BS doesn't include 50 mA fuses.

Yes, including the belief that the only benefit of plug fuses is to protect cables.

No it isn't what I'm saying! If it had a BS1363 plug, what fuse would you fit?

Is it not rational that smaller value fuses allow less let-through energy than larger fuses? Do you need evidence of that fact?

Other than that which can be deduced by anyone with a basic knowledge of elementary physics, no. I am not arguing anything about the purpose of fuses. I am arguing that it is a fallacy to state that fuses only protect the cables and not the appliances connected via those cables, and that the...

I made a statement.

You might get better results from the Building Research Establishment, but I believe they're rather busy with fire testing at the moment.