Question follow-through · 63309
Employment: Sexual Harassment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Health and Safety Executive is taking to help tackle incidents of workplace sexual harassment; and what procedures it follows to identify workplace sexual harassment during workplace insp
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 27 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Health and Safety Executive is taking to help tackle incidents of workplace sexual harassment; and what procedures it follows to identify workplace sexual harassment during workplace insp
1 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jul 2025
Answer published
Whilst the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 could apply to harassment offences in the workplace, the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) long standing position is that it does not seek to regulate or apply health and safety at work legislation where...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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