Question follow-through · 4438
Employment: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues on the potential merits of introducing a maximum temperature to be allowed in the workplace.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jun 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues on the potential merits of introducing a maximum temperature to be allowed in the workplace.
3 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has engaged with other departments across government in the development of the proposals for workplace temperature as part of the review of the Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) for the Workplace (Health, Safety and We...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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