Question follow-through · 13
Agriculture: Health and Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps with the Health and Safety Executive to reinstate proactive inspections in the agriculture industry.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 13 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps with the Health and Safety Executive to reinstate proactive inspections in the agriculture industry.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2026
Answer published
As an independent regulator, it is for Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to determine how to use its resources when considering how best to meet the objectives outlined in its ten year strategy Protecting people and places: HSE strategy 2022 to 2032. For ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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