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Hazardous Substances

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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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 22 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 27 Oct 2025
Answer: 30 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
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
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
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...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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