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If it goes far enough to cover replacing of lights/sockets like for like then B&Q and such will no doubt start offering a fitting service with every such item sold, and probably at surprisingly low cost "Would you like us to schedule an electrician to fit these for you? It's £10 per light including electrical safety testing"... they could easily afford to do that as their in house sparks would be booked up back to back 40 hours a week, akin to a sky/broadband engineers schedule.
That's progress..
It would be if the sockets were fitted properly by a competent electrician, who tested the final circuit to see if it was functioning correctly, and also the RCD if that was fitted.
I've just done 5 years of domestic work. I've seen some right lash up's, where diy's have replaced some standard white plastic to some fancy metal ones, spurred off etc. I had to correctly re-connect a customer Class 1 luminaire, where some handyman (aimed squarely at the over 60's) who decided to use the live & earth instead. Etc etc. And then there's the kitchen fitters and bathroom fitters, who are doing their bit to make things unsafe.