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Hazardous Substances: Health Professions

Commons · Question 84444 · 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, whether he will require NHS employers to provide ongoing (a) education, (b) training and (c) health surveillance for all staff who (i) handle and (ii) may be exposed to hazardous medicinal products.

Answer

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 30 Oct 2025

Where hazardous medicinal products (HMPs) are substances hazardous to health within the meaning of The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (as amended) (COSHH), every employer is required to provide that employee with suitable and ...