Question follow-through · 85728
Employment: Health and Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department is taking steps to provide improved guidance to (a) employers and (b) employees on lone working.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department is taking steps to provide improved guidance to (a) employers and (b) employees on lone working.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2025
Answer published
I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 9 September 2025 to Question UIN 75301.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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