Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the agendas, papers and minutes of Health and Safety Executive open board meetings have not been published since March 2020; and when the HSE plans to publish those documents.

At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, in common with a number of organisations in the public sector, HSE switched its Board meetings to a virtual format. Due to limitations of the technology used, it was not possible for any of these meetings to be open and therefore all board meetings since March 2020 have been closed.

Whilst the HSE Board is firmly committed to engaging with stakeholders in an open and transparent way, the format of this is subject to review and therefore, at the present time, no future open meeting dates have been set.