Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to regulate trampoline parks.

Businesses running trampoline parks have legal duties under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and associated regulations to protect the health and safety of their employees and customers. The legal duties are enforced by local authorities. If a local authority has evidence of poor health and safety performance at a particular trampoline park, it has the powers to investigate and take appropriate enforcement action to ensure compliance with the law.

A British Standard, PAS 5000:2017 ‘Specification for the construction and operation of a fixed indoor trampoline park’ provides advice to trampoline park operators on how to comply with their legal duties.