Question follow-through · 74723
Retail Trade: Health and Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had recent discussions with retailers on the safety and security of people who are lone working in stores.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had recent discussions with retailers on the safety and security of people who are lone working in stores.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has the policy lead for workplace health and safety in Great Britain. However, the primary responsibility for managing risk to health and safety lies with employers. An employer is the person or organisation that is l...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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