Question follow-through · 54546
Delivery Services: Health and Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Health and Safety Executive has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the application of client duties by food delivery platforms who contract (a) self-employed riders and (b) self-empl
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Health and Safety Executive has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the application of client duties by food delivery platforms who contract (a) self-employed riders and (b) self-empl
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2025
Answer published
Health and safety law provides comprehensive protection to all workers. Gig economy workers should be treated no differently to other workers, irrespective of their employment contract. An employer must assess the risks created by the work activity and pu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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