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I suppose it's worth considering that any cables / appliances with built-in SPDs to earth, where no main SPD is fitted, will likely cause a trip on a spike. So perhaps there is more advantage to that than I first thought. Of course, it won't help much if any of the integrated varistors have a lower clamping voltage or faster response than the main ones.

Shunt capacitance at the origin, connected via the minimum possible inductance (e.g. feedthrough construction) will soften the edges but at the expense of needing to be pretty durable and hefty caps. Inductors that would provide tangible benefits would be more expensive still. I can't see it being taken up for general installation work, as it's a functionality upgrade rather than a safety one.
 
But did the cable supplying the freezer socket need RCD protection?
The cable dropped down in trunking from the CU, under the floor and up to the freezer to a low level concealed socket behind the fridge/freezer. It was not accessible and unlikely to have any future screws run into it, unless they were a foot long.
 
Clearly if there is a high peak voltage with a high dV/dt, then the SPD might reduce it to the point where it doesn't cause a trip.
As SPDs appear to be looking to be mandatory soon in new installations. Then they look like they will reduce the problem of RCDs tripping on power on-offs, but fully eliminate it.
 
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