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Hazardous Substances

Commons · Question 84440 · Tabled 22 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 30 Oct 2025

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Asked by Luke Akehurst

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 to ensure that hazardous medicinal products with reprotoxic e

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Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 30 Oct 2025

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has no current plans to amend The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) (as amended). These regulations place duties on all employers to assess the risk and ensure that the exposure of the...