Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 86384

Disclosure of Information

Tabled: 29 October 2025
Answered: 7 November 2025

Question

Max Wilkinson

Liberal DemocratCheltenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of whistleblower protections.

Answer

Kate Dearden
The Government recognises that the whistleblowing framework in the Employment Rights Act 1996 may not be operating as effectively as intended. My Department in July published an independent review into the framework, which did not make formal recommendati...

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