| Heading: |
Working Conditions: Temperature |
| Question ID: |
1826254 |
| UIN: |
70173 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5160 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
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Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
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. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-09-01 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Answer text: |
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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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |