Lead: Health and Safety
Commons · Question 39073 · Tabled 18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Ruth Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 7 May 2024 to Question 24202 on Lead: Health and Safety, what recent estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the assessment of lead ammunition restrictio
Answer
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 24 Mar 2025
For the period 1 March 2021 to 15 March 2025, HSE’s full economic cost estimate is £700,000. This includes the costs of both HSE and independent scientific experts engaged in this work but excludes work undertaken by the Environment Agency.