Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 75058

Protective Clothing: Standards

Tabled: 4 September 2025

Answered: 11 September 2025

Question

Kirsteen Sullivan

Labour (Co-op) — Bathgate and Linlithgow

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to coordinate the new Fair Work Agency with the Health and Safety Executive to enforce better-fit PPE standards.

Answer

Kate Dearden

We are creating the Fair Work Agency to deliver a much-needed upgrade to enforcement of employment rights.Its core function will be to enforce specific employment legislation, set out in Part 1 of Schedule 7 of the Employment Rights Bill.We have taken ste...

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