§ Mr. Proctorasked 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. WaddingtonThe 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.