Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 32621

Health and Safety: Employment

Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 3 March 2025

Question

Euan Stainbank

LabourFalkirk

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of workplace health and safety enforcement; and what steps her Department is taking to strengthen health and safety protections for workers.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is Britain's national regulator for workplace health and safety. It is an independent regulator and it acts in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces. HSE...

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