Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 70173

Working Conditions: Temperature

Tabled: 22 July 2025

Answered: 1 September 2025

Question

Jenny Riddell-Carpenter

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to review existing workplace temperature guidance; and if she will take legislative steps to set a maximum working temperature to protect employees’ (a) health and (b) safety.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

The Government is committed to ensuring workplaces are safe in the modern world and in our Next Steps to Make Work Pay publication, we committed to look at how to modernise health and safety guidance for extreme temperatures. As part of this, the Health a...

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