Question follow-through · 5641

Composite Materials: Health and Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with industry representatives on improving consumer awareness of workplace safety standards in the manufacture of quartz and engineered stone kitchen surfaces.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
3 Jun 2026
Answer
9 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with industry representatives on improving consumer awareness of workplace safety standards in the manufacture of quartz and engineered stone kitchen surfaces.

  2. 3 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is working closely with the Worktop Fabricators Federation and British Occupational Hygiene Society to support introduction of an industry-led quality standard. To display the quality mark, a kitchen surface fabricato...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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