HC Deb 05 April 1982 vol 21 c234W
Mr. Proctor

asked the Secretary of State for Employment pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Basildon on 17 December 1981, Official Report, col. 202–3 if he will make a statement on the guidance document on clinical waste; if the draft document has now been passed to the Health and Safety Commission with a recommendation that it should be published; and when he intends to publish it.

Mr. Waddington

The Health Services Advisory Committee considered the guidance document on clinical waste at its meeting on 17 March. Some points remain d to be clarified and it is now expected that the document will be passed to the Health and Safety Commission during April. I will write to my hon. Friend to give an expected date for publication once the Health and Safety Commission has had an opportunity to consider the document.