Question follow-through · 5554
Cleaning Services: Health and Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Health and Safety Executive hold information on the number of electrocutions caused by the use of water-fed poles in window cleaning.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 10 Oct 2024 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Health and Safety Executive hold information on the number of electrocutions caused by the use of water-fed poles in window cleaning.
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR) places duties on employers, the self-employed and people in control of work premises (the Responsible Person) to report work-related fatalities, certain injuries, occu...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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