Employment: Inspections

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Answering body

Department for Business and Trade

Tabled

17 Dec 2025

Target answer date

5 Jan 2026

Answer

9 Jan 2026 · 23 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

1. 17 Dec 2025

   Question tabled

   To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2025 to Question 96733, how many of the EASI inspections carried out in Scotland in 2024/25 took place (a) on farms and (b) in social care settings.

2. 5 Jan 2026

   Target answer date

   Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

3. 9 Jan 2026

   Answer published

   The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorates legal remit only extends to Employment Agencies and Businesses.Therefore, EAS has no legal powers to conduct visits to farms or social care settings and has conducted no visits in the sectors queried.EAS does ...

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.