Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what incentives the Government provides for whistleblowers to come forward with information before an incident has occurred; and what steps he is taking to tackle the practice of penalising whistleblowers.

The Employment Rights Act 1996 provides employment protection for workers in all sectors who have blown the whistle. It enables them to seek redress if they are dismissed or suffer detriment at the hands of the employer because they have made a ‘protected disclosure’ about wrongdoing that they have witnessed at work. While workers can secure compensation at Employment Tribunal in these circumstances, the Government does not generally offer incentives for whistleblowers.