Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 63309
Employment: Sexual Harassment
Tabled: 27 June 2025
Answered: 7 July 2025
Question
Rebecca Long Bailey
Labour — Salford
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Health and Safety Executive is taking to help tackle incidents of workplace sexual harassment; and what procedures it follows to identify workplace sexual harassment during workplace insp
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsWhilst the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 could apply to harassment offences in the workplace, the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) long standing position is that it does not seek to regulate or apply health and safety at work legislation where...
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