Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of imposing independent regulations on scaffolding certification.

The Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme (CISRS) has been the industry-recognised scaffold training scheme for over 40 years. Our standards of health and safety protections are among the highest in the world and there is no reason for that to change.