Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Health and Safety Executive on the impact on Storm Babet on the (a) welfare and (b) contracted working hours of offshore oil and gas workers.

All offshore installation duty holders have management arrangements in place for a) the welfare and b) the contracted working hours for offshore oil and gas workers, which account for the potential impact of weather events. The implementation of these management arrangements is a part of normal offshore operations, and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions would have no need to specifically discuss this matter with the Health and Safety Executive.