Question follow-through · 31536
Disclosure of Information: Law
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to update whistleblowing laws.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 13 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to update whistleblowing laws.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Government is updating whistleblowing laws through the Employment Rights Bill which will strengthen the protections for whistleblowers, by making it explicit that sexual harassment can be the basis for a protected disclosure.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Disclosure of Information
9 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when his Department plans to start its review of whistleblowing policy.
Disclosure of Information
9 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the estimated timeframe is of his Department's review of whistleblowing policy.