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Israel and Palestine: West Bank
Thursday 7th October 2010

(13 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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My Lords, as the noble Baroness will know with her long experience, health and safety at work is a cornerstone of good industrial policy. Certainly, I am not aware of any plans of my department to affect the strength and force of current health and safety rules.

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My Lords, which of the tasks currently carried out by the HPA will not be carried out in the future?

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My Lords, I have to defer an answer to that because we will shortly publish a White Paper about our plans for the public health service. Following that the public and interested professionals will be invited to feed in their views on exactly how that service should be configured.

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