Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 72068

Disclosure of Information

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 4 September 2025

Question

Maya Ellis

LabourRibble Valley

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen protections for whistle-blowers.

Answer

Justin Madders
A worker who ‘blows the whistle’ (known as making a ‘protected disclosure’) on certain types of wrongdoing is entitled to protections under the Employment Rights Act 1996 from detriment or dismissal as a result of blowing the whistle, and a route to redre...

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