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Security Guards: Retail Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to work with private security companies to ensure that security staff are provided with appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) when operating in retail

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
3 Jun 2026
Answer
10 Jun 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to work with private security companies to ensure that security staff are provided with appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) when operating in retail

  2. 3 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The Security Industry Authority (SIA) is the regulator of the private security industry and continues to work with security businesses to improve standards, training, and best practice in support of public safety. It is for individual businesses to determ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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