I see not problem with 2, 5, and 15 amp plugs as power outlets, and there is no reason why they should not be remotely switched. In my hall I have a 4 gang switch with 3 switches being supplied with the entrance floor lighting and one supplied with upstairs lighting supply, and in the same way there is no reason why a switch plate should not switch ceiling lights and sockets from independent supplies.
Indeed there is no reason at all that multiple supplies cannot be used to a device, and why a remotely switched radial can't be installed. I've very frequently worked on grid plates with multiple 6. 10 or 16A lighting circuits.
I hadn't realised this had been your comment earlier. Equally there is no limit to the number of lighting circuits that can be installed in a property. (I once worked in a large property that had a separate 15A ring final for every room and 5A circuit for every light fitting - up to 3 to a room)
My parents house had one 15 amp socket on a radial that powered the immersion heater, since there is not fuse in the plug they run cool far better idea in an airing cupboard which in spite of name does not have much air movement.
Very common. In my experience the contact resistance of 546's have always been lower than 1363's so will run cooler regardless of the presence of a fuse.
I think the BA22d plug goes back to time with lighting electric and power electric were on separate meters with lighting electric being cheaper, it was at that time a criminal offence to use a lighting supply for power.
Splitters, often with one switched were common when I was a lad, be it an iron or a child's night light, and with rewireable fuses may be rated 2 amp but often far more is drawn.
I don't know if the light/power supplies ever existed as a DNO thing, certainly is the case in privately metered services - student accomodation springs to mind here.
My understanding of the situation -(and minimal experience) was that metered lighting circuits (but not socket circuits) were installed in council houses with tiny fuses in the cut out. A friend lived in a terrace of something like 20-30 houses fed with 30A on 7/0.036 cotton/rubber singles clipped along the front elevation looping in and out of each outside mounted cut out about the size of a double depth Besabox. The only way they they could power anything was from a B22 holder. The fuse in the cast iron box at the end of the row was repaired on a regular basis by the tenants and a coil of fusewire/screwdriver lived in the fuse box and step ladder below it.
When working in Hong Kong I bought many items with the 2, 5, and 15 amp plugs, and had extension leads which allowed me to use any in the 13 amp outlets,
these were common and had a BS number on them, not sure how as never seemed to be shuttered on the 3 pin outlet, however often the 2 pin outlets were shuttered. So I still have items not often used with 5 and 15 amp plugs on them.
I have a selection of adapters and adapter cables between pretty much all connectors (I haven't touched any 2A for many years so may have none left, I think) and I have the ability to convert between 128A and 5A without additional fusing. As such it all needs to be managed very carefully
The problem as I see it, is a 5 or 15 amp socket could be independent of lights, or supplied from lights and the user will not know which, with a lighting plug like the klik it is plain they are for lighting, same goes for a BA22d of course, but unless plainly marked lighting only 2, 5, and 15 amp could be lighting only or independent from lights.
Interesting comment about the Klik system. I have installed many of them (hundreds) but never a single one of them has ever been for lighting.
Even after fitting a new consumer unit I had not worked out what all the 16 ways from the consumer unit fed, once I could switch them I did go around the house to work it all out, I was in the house 4 months before I realised the outside lights on the flat were switched from the main house hall and were on the mid level lighting circuit.
Another common problem, I changed the selection of fuse boxes for a CU not long after we moved in, then DNO wrecked it by stripping most of the screw heads when I complained of over voltage and things failing. Some five or more years later I discovered the damage and had to replace, this time with a split load/single RCD CU. I knew every circuit, or so I thought. Until I altered the bathroom and fitted a RCBO on upstairs light circuit and found I had not one but three borrowed neutrals and a horrible choc bloc joint with half a dozen cables in an inaccessible place.
It was all well and good with previous houses, we moved in when new, so we were told what each switch did, this house when I moved in there were three FCU's just for central heating and circulation pump was on a 13A plug.
So my point is a 2, 5, or 15 amp socket are traditionally for power, and should not be used for lighting unless very plainly marked. I can find grid switches clearly engraved washer, fridge etc. But not 5 amp sockets.
Can always get them engraved.
The old clock sockets were what I used, but now they cost a fortune, of course you can't stop idiots
but you can make it so they realise when the outlet is designed for some thing special. Likely that cable supplies speakers, but how do you know?