Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he is taking steps to encourage whistleblowing in the business community.

My Department is responsible for routinely updating the Prescribed Persons Order, a list of relevant bodies to which a worker can make a protected disclosure about a wrongdoing. Recent whistleblowing disclosures have been highly concentrated in health, public administration, and the financial and insurance sectors. We continue to regularly review the list and address gaps to support more workers to qualify for whistleblowing protections.