Question follow-through · 906402
Hazardous Substances: Health and Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help uphold health and safety standards in relation to worker exposure to hazardous substances.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help uphold health and safety standards in relation to worker exposure to hazardous substances.
18 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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19 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) 10 year strategy Protecting People and Places, sets a clear objective to reduce work-related ill health and to deliver on this. There is also a focus on reducing workplace exposure to hazardous substances. Hazardous...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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