Question follow-through · 22181
Hearing Impairment: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will hold discussions with the Health and Safety Executive on the potential merits of taking steps encourage employers to (a) organise regular hearing tests, (b) distribute adequate personal hear
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will hold discussions with the Health and Safety Executive on the potential merits of taking steps encourage employers to (a) organise regular hearing tests, (b) distribute adequate personal hear
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2025
Answer published
Duties on employers are well established in the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005, which require employers to: a) Carry out hearing tests regularly by a competent person (health surveillance) when there may be a risk to their employee’s hearing, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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