Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if the Health and Safety Executive will a) regularly report GB/EU divergence on chemical hazard classifications and b) set out the reasons why a substance that has received a mandatory hazard classification in the EU is not being considered for a GB hazard classification.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), as the GB Classification, Labelling and Packaging (GB CLP) Agency, includes all information and reasons for GB/EU divergence in the mandatory classification and labelling of substances in the GB MCL Technical Reports that are publicly available from the GB CLP publication table on the HSE website.

The only situation currently where an EU mandatory classification relevant for GB is not considered under the GB CLP Regulation is where the EU has diverged from international consensus on the classification and labelling of substances (as set out under the United Nations Globally Harmonised System (UN GHS) and has adopted its own hazard classes that are not included in the GB CLP Regulation. An explanation is provided in the Agency Technical Report.