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Working Conditions: Temperature

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 65445, tabled on 24 February 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a statutory maximum workplace temperature.

Answered on

6 March 2017

The Government has no plans to make a further assessment of the merits of a statutory workplace maximum temperature. For information on the existing law and guidance on workplace temperature, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 09 September 2016 to Question UIN 44106.