Question follow-through · 9984
Working Conditions: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2024 to Question 728 on Working Conditions: Temperature, when her Department plans to bring forward proposals for consultation on workplace temperatures.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 18 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2024 to Question 728 on Working Conditions: Temperature, when her Department plans to bring forward proposals for consultation on workplace temperatures.
22 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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24 Oct 2024
Answer published
The government remains committed to modernising health and safety guidance, including addressing workplace temperatures. In ‘Next steps to Make Work Pay’ published on 10 October the government acknowledged that some reforms will take longer to undertake a...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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