Written questions

Protective Clothing: Standards

Commons · Question 75058 · Tabled 4 Sep 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 11 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Kirsteen Sullivan

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

Answered by Kate Dearden, 11 Sep 2025

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...